Testing with Selenium in C# - Website which I need to test changes XPath

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I need to create a testing automation tool in selenium with c# to test the website of my company. Everything works fine, except one thing: everytime when I reload a task on the website (like "create new user"), the XPath of some fields change. The first name field is as example not "//*[@id=\"0FirstName\"]" anymore, the new xpath would be "//*[@id=\"2FirstName\"]" and selenium does not recognize that field anymore like before -> program stops working

Is there a way to make a dynamic function to ignore the number before the email?

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[@id=\"0FirstName\"]")).SendKeys("Selenium");

Dmitri T · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-23 08:37:30Z

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You can use XPath contains() function like:
```
//*[contains(@id,'FirstName')]
```
If for some reason it doesn't work, i.e. returns multiple matches you can also implement some form of ends-with() function by using combination of substring() and string-length() functions like:
```
//*[substring(@id, string-length(@id) - string-length('FirstName')+ 1, string-length(@id))= 'FirstName']
```

More information: XPath Operators & Functions

answered Sep 23, 2019 at 8:37

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dafie · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-23 08:04:03Z

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You can change your xpath as following:

driver.FindElement(By.Xpath("//*[contains(@id,'FirstName')]"));

answered Sep 23, 2019 at 8:04

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Ed Bangga · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-23 08:05:09Z

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you can use contains()

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[contains(@id,'FirstName')]")).SendKeys("Selenium");

answered Sep 23, 2019 at 8:05

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