Question

With Selenium WebDriver I’m attempting to select drop down menu elements on a webpage by strings read from an Excel file:

        Xls_Reader data = new Xls_Reader("src//com//testexcel//data//data3.xlsx");
        String values = data.getCellData("DropList", "Index_Value", 2);
        String selections[] = values.split(",");

They are in this form: Construction,Engineering,Legal,etc.

Each element I am trying to select looks like this:

<div class="ui-dropdownchecklist-item ui-state-default" style="white-space: nowrap;">
<input id="ddcl-selInd-i3" class="active" type="checkbox" tabindex="0" index="3" value="11">
<label class="ui-dropdownchecklist-text" for="ddcl-selInd-i3" style="cursor: default;">Construction</label>
</div>

<div class="ui-dropdownchecklist-item ui-state-default" style="white-space: nowrap;">
<input id="ddcl-selInd-i5" class="active" type="checkbox" tabindex="0" index="5" value="03">
<label class="ui-dropdownchecklist-text" for="ddcl-selInd-i5" style="cursor: default;">Engineering</label>
</div>

Here is the code:

package com.selftechy.parameterization;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class JobServe {

    static WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {


        driver.get("https://www.jobserve.com/gb/en/Candidate/Home.aspx");
        driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='ddcl-selInd']/span")).click();

        readExcelWords();


    public static void readExcelWords() {
        Xls_Reader data = new Xls_Reader("src//com//testexcel//data//data3.xlsx");
        String values = data.getCellData("DropList", "Index_Value", 2);
        String selections[] = values.split(",");

//help  
List<WebElement> iList = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//*[@id='ddcl-selInd-ddw']"));
    for (int i=0; i<selections.length; i++) {
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[text()='" + selections[i] + "']")).click();

I know the xpath is wrong and possibly the way I am working with data types. I need a way of making xpath selection work on the basis of the array values. I am relatively new to Java and Selenium and would appreciate some help.

Answer 1

Try

findElement(By.xpath("//label[.='xyz']/../input"));

where xyz is one of Construction, Engineering, etc