Selenium IDE and xpath - find text / row in table and select radio box

Question

I've been using Selenium IDE and getting some good results. I've done a lot of reading about following-sibling and preceding-sibling but I can't locate the right radio button.

Essentially I want to find the row in a table with the word 'testing' and then click the radio button in the cell.

So far I can find the input button //input[@type='radio']

and find the text testing //a[contains(text(),'testing')]

I've been trying to use this in the ide

check | //input[@type='radio']/following-sibling::td[1]/a[contains(text(),'testing')]

but I get the error [error] locator not found: //input[@type='radio']/following-sibling::a[contains(text()[1],'testing')]

Any help to change this is really appreciated :)

Cheers

Damien

here's the bare basic table ...

<tbody id="list">
<tr>
<th>
<label class="radio">
<input class="presentation_radio" type="radio" value="1" name="presentation_radio">
</label>
</th>
<td>
<a href="/link_to/document">testing </a>
</td>
<td>testing</td>
<td>Joe Acme</td>
<td>Presentation</td>
<td>03 May 2012</td>
<td>5 (1)</td>
</tr>
</tbody>

Solution

The problem with your xpath is that td and input are not sibling (they don't have common parent) and even if you change your xpath to more correct version:

//input[@type='radio']/following::td[1]/a[contains(text(),'testing')]

it will find a that have preceding checkbox instead of checkbox itself. So correct xpath will be:

//a[contains(text(),'testing')]/preceding::input[@type='radio'][1]

or

//tr[descendant::a[contains(.,'testing')]]//input[@type='radio']

For xpath axis tutorial read this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms256456.aspx

Comments

[BoltClock]

Where is CSS mentioned in this question?

[Damien]

Hey thanks for this ... this one works //a[contains(text(),'testing')]/preceding::input[@type='radi‌​o']

[Aleh Douhi]

@Damien sorry, it should be with [1] in the end. See my corrected answer.

[Damien]

@AlehDouhi Yes i see ... it always selects the th in row 1 otherwise