XPath to find ancestor node containing CSS class
- by Juan Mendes
I am writing some Selenium tests and I need to be able to find an ancestor of a WebElement that I have already found.
This is what I'm trying but is returning no results
// checkbox is also a WebElement
WebElement container = checkbox.findElement(By.xpath(
"current()/ancestor-or-self::div[contains(@class, 'x-grid-view')]") );
The image below shows the div that I have selected highlighted in dark blue and the one I want to find with an arrow pointing at it.
UPDATE
Tried prestomanifesto's suggestion and got the following error
[cucumber] org.openqa.selenium.InvalidSelectorException: The given selector ./ancestor::div[contains(@class, 'x-grid-view']) is either invalid or does not result in a WebElement. The following error occurred:
[cucumber] [InvalidSelectorError] Unable to locate an element with the xpath expression ./ancestor::div[contains(@class, 'x-grid-view']) because of the following error:
[cucumber] [Exception... "The expression is not a legal expression." code: "51" nsresult: "0x805b0033 (NS_ERROR_DOM_INVALID_EXPRESSION_ERR)" location: "file:///C:/Users/JUAN~1.MEN/AppData/Local/Temp/anonymous849245187842385828webdriver-profile/extensions/fxdriv
Update 2
Really weird, even by ID is not working
[cucumber] org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element:{"method":"xpath","selector":"./ancestor::div[@id='gridview-1252']"}
