How to write Xpath for dynamic value passing?

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How to write Xpath for the following:

<input class="t2" style="background-color:#008000;" title="Jump to Detailed Analysis" type="button" value="Analyze" onclick="javascript:popAnalyze
(&quot;1622662&quot;,&quot; SP0001622662&quot;,&quot;CS3_pro2_axeda6&quot;,&quot;5336293761&quot;);">

Highlighted values are there in some variable(st_name). Highlighted and Red colour rounded values will be changing dynamically.
I’m not able to get how to write Xpath for this.

import xlrd

path = r'C:UserstmouPycharmProjectsPythonWebScrapingBook2.xlsx'
workbook = xlrd.open_workbook(path)
sheet = workbook.sheet_by_index(0)
for c in range(sheet.ncols):
    for r in range(sheet.nrows):
        st = (sheet.cell_value(r, c))
        try:
            if st == float(st):
                st_string = int(st)
                #variable = 1622662
                #new_string = "javascript:popAnalyze(&quot;" + str(st_string) + "&quot;,&quot;SP0001622662&quot;,&quot;CS3_pro2_axeda6&quot;,&quot;5336293761&quot;);"
                #driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@class='t2']/@onclick='" + st_string + "'").click()
                #driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@value='Analyze' and contains(@onclick='" + st_string + "']")
                #driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@title='" + st_string + "']")

HTML:

<input class="t2" style="background-color:#008000;" title="Jump to Detailed Analysis" type="button" value="Analyze" onclick="javascript:popAnalyze(&quot;1622662&quot;,&quot;SP0001622662&quot;,&quot;CS3_pro2_axeda6&quot;,&quot;5336293761&quot;);">

Asked By: Mounika Krishna

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Answer 1

There are many ways to do this without the value of onclick, so don’t bother even if it is dynamic, like shown below:

//input[@title='Jump to Detailed Analysis']

or

//input[@value='Analyze']

or

//input[@value='Analyze' and @title='Jump to Detailed Analysis']

EDIT 1:

You can use variable like shown below:

variable = "Analyze"
xpath = "//input[@value='" + variable + "']"

EDIT 2:

variable = 1622662
new_string = "javascript:popAnalyze(&quot;" + str(variable) + "&quot;,&quot;SP0001622662&quot;,&quot;CS3_pro2_axeda6&quot;,&quot;5336293761&quot;);"

EDIT 3:

variable = 1622662
xpath = "//input[@value='Analyze' and contains(@onclick,'" + str(variable) + "')]"

if driver.find_elements_by_xpath(xpath):
    driver.find_element_by_xpath(xpath).click()

In the above code variable will be your dynamic value.
xpath variable will have a dynamic xpath based on the value of
variable
if driver.find_elements_by_xpath(xpath): will check if at least one
element with the xpath exit
if exists exits click on it

Answered By: Thanthu

Answer 2

Use one of the following XPath :

//input[@value='Analyze' and contains(@onclick,'"+st_name+"')]

OR

//input[@title='Jump to Detailed Analysis' and contains(@onclick,'"+st_name+"')]

Final Code :

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@title='Jump to Detailed Analysis' and contains(@onclick,'"+st_name+"')]")

Answered By: Pritam Maske

Answer 3

If the value that you are looking for is the one under onclick attribute then the following Xpath expression should work:

string(//input[@class='t2']/@onclick)

Edit 1

Can you try for XPath version 3 or lower:

//input[(@class='t2' and matches(@onclick,'1622662'))]

And for XPath version 3.1:

//input[@class='t2']/[matches(@onclick, '1622662')]

Answered By: Konstantinos Palaiodimos

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