selenium java. Unable to locate element

Question

Please can someone point me to the right direction with below code?

driver.findElement(By.id("div#h4clock a.location").equals("London"));

I used getText("London") but it did not work.

I am quite new so any advise would be very much appreciated.

I also want to have a string to store the element London and display it using Println.

Many thanks in advance,

Hamid

is that your actual id div#h4clock a.location? If you have iframes you have to focus on the iframe prior to findElement(...). — Fran Montero
– Fran Montero, Commented May 12, 2015 at 11:54

Saifur · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-14 12:09:53Z

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The selector does not look like as an id that cssSelector. Try

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div#h4clock a.location")).getText().equals("London");

Edit:

WebElement city = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div#h4clock a.location")); 
String getcity = city.getText(); 
System.out.println(getcity);

edited May 14, 2015 at 12:09

answered May 12, 2015 at 11:54

Saifur

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HK009 Over a year ago

I took slightly different approach but it seems like this one also failed.

HK009 Over a year ago

WebElement city = driver.findElement(By.id("div#h4clock a.location")); String getcity = city.getText(); System.out.println(getcity);

HK009 Over a year ago

A basic but very important questions. How do know the selector wasn't an ID.

Saifur Over a year ago

There are multiple things you can see. With # in css means id and . means class. And, there are some basic requirements of how an id should look like in the html. See this. Basically, looking at the syntax I was sure it was not id

Subh Over a year ago

@Saifur: can you please explain your code? I have never encountered/used "equals" like this.. So, just curious what happens here.. Thanks in advance.. :)

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