Use selenium WebDriver to select radio button from text

Question

We've got some poorly written radio buttons on a legacy page as follows:

<input id="button1" name="button" value="32" onchange="assignProduct(this.value);" type="radio"></input>
RADIO TEXT 1
<input id="button2" name="button" value="33" onchange="assignProduct(this.value);" type="radio"></input>
RADIO TEXT 2

for information, this displays the same as would:

<input id="button" name="button" value="32" onchange="assignProduct(this.value);" type="radio">RADIO TEXT 1</input>
<input id="button" name="button" value="33" onchange="assignProduct(this.value);" type="radio">RADIO TEXT 2</input>

The latter code is more correct and allows selection of input button by text "RADIO TEXT 2" by:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("(//input[contains(@text, 'RADIO TEXT 2')])")).click();

What code can I use to find the radio button in the first code sample, which is what I actually have to deal with?

The text is no longer contained within the element so .xpath() doesn't match it.

I need to find the text, then click the input immediately prior? Can I do this without consuming and traversing the entire page?

Furious Duck · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-17 09:16:54Z

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Use XPath axes. In this particular case following-sibling. I've designed a locator to demonstrate it on this page. Look at the @bansalshah's answer. Lets select <p> where the following text contains for eg. It works, Ive checked this :)

.//*[@id='answer-25883774']//div[@class='post-text']/p[./following-sibling::*[contains(., 'for eg')]]

So, in your case, to select the input for RADIO TEXT 2 this should be something like

.//input[@type='radio'][./following-sibling::*[contains(., 'RADIO TEXT 2')]]

answered Sep 17, 2014 at 9:16

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German Petrov · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-17 09:15:21Z

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For the first example, you can access buttons by there ID:

driver.findElement(By.id("button1")).click(); //first button

and

driver.findElement(By.id("button2")).click(); //second button

If the Id is not enough, you can, using xpath, access to them via id and value:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='button1'][@value='32']")).click(); //first button

and

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='button2'][@value='33']")).click(); //first button

answered Sep 17, 2014 at 9:15

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Furious Duck Over a year ago

@CharlieS asks if he's able to make an XPath locator according to following text, not id or something else

CharlieS Over a year ago

as @AlexanderPetrovich comments, I don't necessarily know the id/value. In many html generating engines these might change with each build, but the text the end user will see is unlikely to change as often.

bansal shah · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-17 06:32:26Z

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From the code which i can see you can map the values with text

for eg value=32 for radio text 1 and get the value from the xpath

if value =32 then select the radio button

Hope this helps

answered Sep 17, 2014 at 6:32

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CharlieS Over a year ago

this does not answer the question. i don't know the value i want to find, i only know the text following. i could also select by id if i knew it.

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