Selenium can't find element by xpath

Question

I\'ve been working at this for some time now. I\'m using Selenium and WebDriver version 2.33 (with all browsers). I\'m using Java, which should be arbitrary. What I\'m doing

Answer 1

Try as CSS Selectors :

By by = By.css('div[id^="highcharts"] g[class^="highcharts"] > g > rec')

g.class_name I used,as that <g> tags class name is not visible. Replace that class name with the proper class name.

Answer 2

I just wanted to give a slight update on this. It seems selenium can't see past the SVG tags, so with that being said, I need to find a method to see around them...I will report back if I'm able to find out how.

Thanks all!

Answer 3

From your discussion with Amey i deduced that you have only one highchart. so try directly searching for element "highcharts-tracker" using classname i.e By.ClassName("highcharts-tracker") and then hover on this element itself. This would exactly do what you want to achieve.

Answer 4

Sorry just seeing your comment on my earlier answer. You can get the values for each bar in barchart by following way:

var barValues = new List<string>(); 
var actions = new Actions(webDriver); //webDriver is instance of selenium WebDriver.
var chartSeriesGroup = webDriver.FindElement(By.ClassName("highcharts-series-group"));
var chartSeries = chartSeriesGroup.FindElement(By.ClassName("highcharts-series"));
var rectTags = chartSeries.FindElements(By.TagName("rect")); //To get all bars in barchart.

foreach (var rect in rectTags)
{
   actions.MoveToElement(rect).Perform(); //Hover mouse on bar.
   var trendMarkers = webDriver.FindElement(By.ClassName("highcharts-tooltip"));
   barValues.Add(trendMarkers.Text); //Storing tooltip value of bar for later use.
}

I am using same method in my current project for getting values of bars in bar chart. Hope this will help you.

Note : If tooltip for bar shows other information e.g.name etc along with value then you need to write logic for extracting the value part from the complete information stored in barValues.