how to click two identical attributes with Selenium WebDriver?

Question

In firepath I saw two identical attributes, firepath has two results.

Here is the highlighted HTML code below in firebug:

<button class="list_header_search_toggle icon-search btn btn-icon table-btn-lg" style="margin-left:0px">

And below is the whole code:

<button class="list_header_search_toggle icon-search btn btn-icon table-btn-lg" style="margin-left:0px">
<span class="sr-only">Search</span>
</button>

NOTE: There is only 1 search button, I search it every where and there is only 1 but it shows two??

How to code this in selenium web driver?

The snippet from firepath:

Update:

Html code image, from firepath:

Try:.//button[@id='hdr_problem_task']/th[2]/button[0] .//button[@id='hdr_problem_task']/th[2]/button[1] .//button[@id='hdr_problem_task']/th[2]/button[2] — Kishan Patel
– Kishan Patel, Commented Mar 21, 2017 at 12:16

catch32 · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-21 22:11:54Z

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You can use XPath functions, for example:

position() returns the position of element at DOM

//button[@id='hdr_problem_task']/th[2]/button[position()=1]

last()

//button[@id='hdr_problem_task']/th[2]/button[last()]

something like first() doesn't exist, instead of this you can use index:

//button[@id='hdr_problem_task']/th[2]/button[1]

Also if button has some text you can use it as well:

//button[@id='hdr_problem_task']/th[2]/button[text()='button name']

or with contains()

//button[@id='hdr_problem_task']/th[2]/button[contains(text(), 'button name')]

UPDATE:

The button has name Search you can use XPath with - contains().

One more small suggestion, don't forget about future support. And instead of the following locator:

//*[@id='hdr_problem_task']/th[2]/button

Much better will be:

//button[@id='hdr_problem_task']/th[2]/button

edited Mar 21, 2017 at 22:11

answered Mar 21, 2017 at 12:59

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Mahipal · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-22 00:06:23Z

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You can use th tag's name attribute value in order to recognize the correct Search button, as shown below:

//th[@name='search'][1]/button/span[text()='Search']

Let me know, whether it works for you.

answered Mar 22, 2017 at 0:06

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3 Comments

Richard Madsi Over a year ago

the code is visible in firepath and it has two the same results: 1rst Results: <span class="sr-only">Search</span> 2nd Results: <span class="sr-only">Search</span>

Richard Madsi Over a year ago

but it is not visible in Eclipse when I ran it

Mahipal Over a year ago

What exception/error do you see when you run code using above xpath?

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