How can I detect an element on the screen because sometimes it come with different formats using sel-CodePudding

I am trying to detect an element that can have different index on the screen, sometimes it can be detected like this (//input[@value='OK'])[1] and sometimes it appears and can be detected with this (//input[@value='OK'])[2] there is no other way to get this element to be unique because multiple elements are developed the same but every time it will appear with a different format, is there anyway to check whether it's detected by 1st or the 2nd index and then press on it. I tried try and catch but it's not working

try{
    while(true) {
        new WebDriverWait(driver, 5)
                .ignoring(ElementNotVisibleException.class, NoSuchElementException.class)
                .until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOf(driver.findElement(element))))
                .click();
    }
} catch (Exception ignored){ }

CodePudding user response：

Just Try this

if(driver.findElements(By.xpath("xpath1")).size()!=0)
{
 driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath1")).click
}
else if(driver.findElements(By.xpath("xpath2")).size()!=0)
{
 driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath2")).click
}

CodePudding user response：

Investigate to see if you can write relative xpath that is valid for both scenarios. Failing you can use an xpath conditional operator to combine the two values like //*[@id='notify-containe' or contains(@id,'notify-container')].