Here is the HTML:
<li>
<input type="checkbox" checked="" name="selectedMstrPrivGroupList[9].mstrAuthorities[0].status"/>
Add Dexter
</li>
How could this element be clicked in WebDriver? It is a check box. And I want to use XPath as I have close to 30+ check boxes in the page. So that I can create a generic method and pass only the WebElement. I tried the following but didn't work.
Driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[contains(.,'Add Dexter')]")).click();
If the checkbox next to "Add Dexter" is what you want to click on the page, you can use:
Driver.findElement(By.xpath("//li[contains(.,'Add Dexter')]//input[@type='checkbox']")).click();
"//li[contains(.,'" + someString + "')]//input[@type='checkbox']" should work.What is with this one:
Driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='selectedMstrPrivGroupList[9].mstrAuthorities[0].status']")).click();
You can use like this,
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//li[contains(text(),'Add Dexter')]")).click()
You can use xpath to click on the element as below:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[text()='Add Dexter']")).click();
You can also click on that element by using cssSelector instead of xpath as below:
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input:contains(^Add Dexter$)")).click();
Note: CssPath/CssSelector is faster than xpath. So it's better to use cssSelector than xpath in most cases.