Compound class names are not supported error in WebDriver
Solution 1
This is exactly as expected. If your class name includes a space, WebDriver will see it as a "compound selector". You can either remove the space in your By.className()
locator, which should still find the elements you're looking for; or you can move to finding by CSS selectors, using something like By.cssSelector(".cashout_noCash")
, which offer far more flexibility for similar functionality. This is exactly what the exception message says.
Solution 2
You can include compound class names selectors by leaving no gap between any of them.
For example if your div
is:
<div class="k-calendar-container k-popup k-group k-reset"></div>
Then your selector
will be:
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("k-calendar-container.k-popup.k-group.k-reset"));
Solution 3
Here is a Ruby answer if anyone needs it. The conclusion I reached is that some of the solutions that worked for java above either don't work on my machine or don't work for Ruby at all (although I am not sure which is the case).
If the html is:
<a class="button orange-bg" href="http://www.MyCarmelHome.com" target="_blank">
access web portal
</a>
The format to find this element would be:
logInBtn = driver.find_element(:css, ".button.orange-bg")
I used this because the following wouldn't work:
Replacing the spaces with '.' and finding by css selector (you need to put a period at the front).
Removing the spaces in the compound class name and using the class name locator.
Solution 4
driver.findElements(By.cssSelector(".cashout_noCash"));
Comments
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Atanas Kanchev almost 2 years
I have a method to count the number of elements in
divs
and to return their number.public int getNumberOfOpenBets() { openBetsSlip = driver.findElement(By.id("form_open_bets")); openBets = openBetsSlip.findElements(By.className(" cashout_noCash")); return openBets.size(); }
That's the page source
<form id="form_open_bets" method="post" name="form_open_bets"> <input type="hidden" value="" name="action"> <input type="hidden" value="" name="bet_id"> <input type="hidden" value="" name="cashout_price"> <input id="target_page" type="hidden" value="" name="target_page"> <div id="By.id" class="slipWrapper "> <div id="openBets_header"></div> <div id="cashout_1626" class=" cashout_noCash"> <div id="cashout_1625" class=" cashout_noCash"> <div id="cashout_1615" class=" cashout_noCash"> <div id="cashout_1614" class=" cashout_noCash"> <div id="cashout_1613" class=" cashout_noCash"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </form>
WebDriver is throwing the following error: Compound class names are not supported. Consider searching for one class name and filtering the results or use CSS selectors.
org.openqa.selenium.InvalidSelectorException: Compound class names are not supported. Consider searching for one class name and filtering the results or use CSS selectors. For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/invalid_selector_exception.html Build info: version: '2.31.0', revision: '1bd294d185a80fa4206dfeab80ba773c04ac33c0', time: '2013-02-27 13:51:26' System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.7.0_17' Driver info: driver.version: unknown at org.openqa.selenium.By.className(By.java:131) at elements.betslip.Betslip.getNumberOfOpenBets(Betslip.java:136) at testSomething(SomethingTest.java:117) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:47) at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12) at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:44) at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:17) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:271) at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:70) at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:50) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:238) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:63) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:236) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:53) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:229) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:309) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:50) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:467) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197)
EDIT:
As it turned out
WerbDriver
doesn't support spaces in the class names, omg.Could you guys please help me to use
CSS
selector in this situation in order to find the elements? -
Atanas Kanchev about 11 yearsThanks Jim, the page source is full with elements with spaces in the locators, I just want to kill the devs :-) Could you please give an example of CSS selectors used in this situation? Many Thanks, Atanas
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JimEvans about 11 yearsUpdated my answer to give you more detail. With a single class like your sample shows, you don't have to use CSS selectors in that case; just use the single class you're looking for without the space.
By.className("cashout_noCash")
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user2875994 over 8 yearsthe cssselector string would need a "." at the beginning as well.
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Emjey almost 7 yearsSaved a lot of time for me! Damn, those spaces in the class.
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Black almost 7 yearsI still get
Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: .t3-icon.t3-icon-actions.t3-icon-actions-document.t3-icon-document-view
If I try to select an icon in TYPO3