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 ... ``` testing testing Joe Acme…

Accepted Answer

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

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

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