Question

I want to find the element for a checkbox on the page:

this is the source code of the page:

<tr>
                        <td class="tablecell"  width="200" valign="top">Filter_list</td>
                        <td class="tablecell"  width="360">
                            <div id="div_filterlist">
                                <table border="0">
                                    <tr>
                                        <td class="tablecell"  width="160" valign="top"><b>Available Filters</b><br>
                                            <ul id="unselected_ilters" class="unselected_filter">

                                                <li itemID="test">
                                                    <input type="checkbox" value="test" onClick="toggleUnselected(this,'test')" onMouseOver="this.style.cursor='hand'"/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                                    <a href="#" onClick="document.filterform.name.value='test';document.filterform.submit();">test</a>
                                                </li>

My code is not working:

String xpathLocater = "//input[ @type=\"checkbox\" and @value=\" test\"]";

Answer 1

css selector:
String cssLocator = "input[type=checkbox]"; or
String cssLocator = "input[type=checkbox][value=test]";

xpath selector:
String xpathLocator = "//input[@type=\"checkbox\"]"; or
String xpathLocator = "//input[@type=\"checkbox\" and @value=\"test\"]";

If you still can't find the element check 2 things:

whether that element inside iframe: if yes - you need to switch to iframe first
add wait before finding an element (you could try to find element before it was added to DOM)

Selenium java can not find the right element

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