Python Selenium: Find row by partial text then click checkbox that has no identifier to that partial-CodePudding

I need to click a checkbox on a table by serial number but the serial number isn't tied into the checkbox by any unique identifier:

Here's the serial:

 <a href="#" style="padding-left:10px;" id="inactive_406906" onclick="getDeviceInfo(406906); return false;"> SZK190052 </a>

Here's the checkbox:

 <input id="inactiveDeviceSelectionCheckbox"  name="inactiveList" type="checkbox" value="406906" onclick="onClickDeviceCheckbox(this, document.myform.deviceInactiveCheckAll, 406906, false, false, false, false, false, 0)" onchange="populateInactiveCheckedDevice(this, 406906, false, false)">

Here's my attempt:

browser.find_element_by_xpath("//tr[.//a[text()='SSJD90134']]//input[@class='deviceSelectionCheckBox']").click()

I get the following error:

 Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//tr[.//a[text()='SSJD90134']]//input[@class='deviceSelectionCheckBox']"}

Unfortunately its not working, any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

CodePudding user response：

Instead of text()='SSJD90134' you can use contains(.,'SSJD90134') so that instead of

browser.find_element_by_xpath("//tr[.//a[text()='SSJD90134']]//input[@class='deviceSelectionCheckBox']").click()

You can use

browser.find_element_by_xpath("//tr[.//a[contains(.,'SSJD90134')]]//input[@class='deviceSelectionCheckBox']").click()

Or, as mentioned by Kunduk you can remove spaces with normalize-space() method

browser.find_element_by_xpath("//tr[.//a[normalize-space() = 'SSJD90134']]//input[@class='deviceSelectionCheckBox']").click()

CodePudding user response：

You are nearly there. There is space between your text you are searching. Use below xpath.

//tr[.//a[normalize-space(text())='SSJD90134']]//input[@class='deviceSelectionCheckBox']

so your code be like

browser.find_element_by_xpath("//tr[.//a[normalize-space(text())='SSJD90134']]//input[@class='deviceSelectionCheckBox']
").click()

One more Xpath option:

//td[.//a[normalize-space(text())='SSJD90134']]/preceding-sibling::td//input[@class='deviceSelectionCheckBox']

CodePudding user response：

There are spaces around the link test:

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[matches(text(),'SZK190052']//input").click()

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[text()=' SZK190052 ']//input").click()