Question

Please find the Html below :

<table class="data" id="filteredTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1">
<tbody>

<tr class="rowLight">
  <td class="lt4"><input name="ids" value="att1" type="checkbox"></td>
  <td><a hfref= " link1" > foo </a>
  </td>
  <td>item1</td>
  <td>item2</td>
  <td>item3</td>
</tr>

<tr class="rowDark">
  <td class="lt4"><input name="ids" value="att2" type="checkbox"></td>
  <td><a hfref= " link2" > boo </a>
  </td>
  <td>item1</td>
  <td>item2</td>
  <td>item3</td>
</tr>


<tr class="rowLight">
  <td class="lt4"><input name="ids" value="att3" type="checkbox"></td>
  <td><a hfref= " link3" > bar </a>
  </td>
  <td>item1</td>
  <td>item2</td>
  <td>item3</td>
</tr>

Now I need to click on the link of bar. But my below Xpath not helping me to get into the bar as well. So any help how to be done the same.

I didn’t give the html for the part //form[contains(@name,'filterset_FilterSetListForm')]/table[contains(@class,'contentBody')]/tbody/tr/td/table[contains(@class,'content')]/tbody/tr/td/. <~~ till this I am correct. Confusion start after <tr> from here /table[contains(@id,'filteredTable')]/tbody/tr

Part-II:

When there will be a match say bar , can their associated check box (s) be clicked?

Any help in this regard?

I am using selenium -web driver with Ruby 1.9.3 .

Answer 1

You can get the a element this way

/table[contains(@id,'filteredTable')]/tbody/tr/td/a[contains(text(),'bar')]

or if you want an exact match to the link text

/table[contains(@id,'filteredTable')]/tbody/tr/td/a[text()=' bar ']