How to use getGridUri method of org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.local.LocalNode class

The element is blinking because of a feature of the IE driver called "persistent hovers." This feature is of dubious value, but is required because of the brain-dead way IE (the browser, not the driver) responds to WM_MOUSEMOVE messages when using the SendMessage API.

You have a few options. You can turn persistent hovers off by using code like the following:

InternetExplorerOptions options = new InternetExplorerOptions();
options.EnablePersistentHover = false;
IWebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(options);

Be aware, though that this will subject you to the whims of where the physical mouse cursor is on the screen when you attempt to hover. If that's not acceptable, you have a couple of other approaches you could take. First, you could turn off so-called "native events," which would cause the driver to rely solely on synthesized JavaScript events. This approach has its own pitfalls, due to relying only on JavaScript to synthesize the mouse events.

InternetExplorerOptions options = new InternetExplorerOptions();
options.EnableNativeEvents = false;
IWebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(options);

Finally, you could migrate from using the default SendMessage Windows API to code that uses the more correct SendInput API. This is done with the RequireWindowFocus property. Its drawback is that the mouse input is injected at a very low level in the system, which requires the IE window to be the foreground window on the system.

InternetExplorerOptions options = new InternetExplorerOptions();
options.RequireWindowFocus = true;
IWebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(options);

As a final note, do not attempt to set all of these properties at once; pick an approach and stick with it. Several of them are mutually exclusive, and the interaction between them is undefined.

You can use JavaScriptExecutor for scrolling.

Scroll Down

((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("window.scrollTo(0,document.body.scr‌​ollHeight);");

Scroll Up

((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("window.scrollTo(0,0);");

DesiredCapabilities would help you to change user agent.

You can achieve this by calling these methods:

• setBrowserName(java.lang.String browserName)
• setPlatform(Platform platform)
• setVersion(java.lang.String version)

Or

• static DesiredCapabilities chrome()
• static DesiredCapabilities firefox()
• static DesiredCapabilities iphone()
• ...

More here.

Hinted by this Chromedriver ticket (about the silent option), I looked in the source of ChromeDriverService.java, and found a reference to "webdriver.chrome.logfile".

After adding -Dwebdriver.chrome.logfile="/dev/null" to my java command, the logs became readable again: The usless ChromeDriver logs were gone, while theSystem.out.println calls and exceptions are still shown in the console.

I start java with the following parameters (Linux / Mac):

DIR=path/to/dir/containing/selenium/and/stuff
cd "$DIR" && java -cp "$DIR\
:$DIR/output\
:$DIR/bin/selenium-server-standalone-2.33.0.jar" \
-Dwebdriver.chrome.driver="$DIR/bin/chromedriver" \
-Dwebdriver.chrome.args="--disable-logging" \
-Dwebdriver.chrome.logfile="/dev/null" \
AllTests

If you're on Windows:

set DIR=path\to\dir\containing\selenium\and\stuff
cd "%DIR%" && java -cp "%DIR%;%DIR%\output;%DIR%\bin\selenium-server-standalone-2.33.0.jar" ^
-Dwebdriver.chrome.driver="%DIR%\bin\chromedriver.exe" ^
-Dwebdriver.chrome.args="--disable-logging" ^
-Dwebdriver.chrome.logfile=NUL ^
AllTests

Explanation for the composition of my classpath (-cp): My tests are located in a directory at "$DIR/output". The Selenium jar file is placed in "$DIR/bin/selenium-server-standalone-2.33.0.jar". "AllTests" is the name of my class containing public static void main(String[] args) - this launches my tests.

The other parameters are self-explanatory, adjust it to your needs. For convenience (used in a shell/batch script), I've declared the common directory in a variable DIR.

This xpath should find it

WebElement temp = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//img[@src='web/L001/images/IMAGENAME.jpg']"));

or use contains like so

WebElement temp = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//img[contains(@src,'web/L001/images/IMAGENAME.jpg')]"));

But i think the problem would be is that you are not waiting for the element.

Is this a timing issue? Is the element (or the whole page) AJAX-loaded? It's possible that it's not present on the page when you're trying to look for it, WebDriver is often "too fast".

To solve it, is either implicit or explicit wait.

The Implicit Wait way. Because of the implicit wait set, this will try to wait for the element to appear on the page if it is not present right away (which is the case of asynchronous requests) until it times out and throws as usual:

// Sooner, usually right after your driver instance is created.
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

// Your method, unchanged.
@Test
public void Appointments() {
    ...
    driver.findElement(By.id("ctl00_Header1_liAppointmentDiary")).doSomethingWithIt();
    ...
}

The Explicit Wait way. This will only wait for this one element to be present on the page when looking for it. Using the ExpectedConditions class, you can wait for different things, too - the element to be visible, clickable etc.:

import static org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions.*;

@Test
public void Appointments() {
    ...
    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
    wait.until(presenceOfElementLocated(By.id("ctl00_Header1_liAppointmentDiary")))
        .doSomethingwithIt();
    ...
}

The driver is failing to properly terminate the sub processes created by Firefox like flash.

https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/issues/285

To avoid the dialogue box, you can set the environemnt variable XRE_NO_WINDOWS_CRASH_DIALOG to 1.

Your all xpath are looks OK, Just some syntactically incorrect. you are missing // in your xpath

The correct xpath are as below :-

By by = By.xpath("//span[.='Settings']")

Or

By by = By.xpath("//span[text()='Settings']")

Or

By by = By.xpath("//div[@class='settings-padding']/span"))

Or you can use cssSelector as :-

By by = By.cssSelector("div.settings-padding > span"))

Using anyone of the above By locator you can locate element as below :-

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
WebElement el = wait.until(presenceOfElementLocated(by));

Hope it helps...:)

Try element.getAttribute("value")

The text property is for text within the tags of an element. For input elements, the displayed text is not wrapped by the <input> tag, instead it's inside the value attribute.

Note: Case matters. If you specify "Value", you'll get a 'null' value back. This is true for C# at least.