How to identify elements classname containing special characters using Selenium and VBA

Question

I'm trying to learn more about how Selenium works with VBA and I'm trying to do somethings about the trendings behaviors of ecommerce nowadays.

In this case, I don't know how works the FindelementByclass when it has special characters like _ or - inside, because it always gives me empty result and I need to identify it because I want to go through every class called as it.

<span class="minificha__sku ng-binding">Cód TG: AS0-322</span>

PDHide · Answer 1 · 2021-02-15T19:05:50.867

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space in class means it has two classes,

class="minificha__sku ng-binding"

means it has "minificha__sku" and "ng-binding" , so use xpath or css instead of byclass or use either of the two class not two

css:

span[class="minificha__sku ng-binding"]

xpath

//span[@class="minificha__sku ng-binding"]

edited Feb 15 '21 at 19:05

answered Feb 15 '21 at 18:57

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I understand, but it doesn't work for what I need to do, or I guess that's what's is causing issues in my script, can you give me an example using css? – Peter Feb 15 '21 at 19:00
Added answer please see the update – PDHide Feb 15 '21 at 19:05
Your css pattern is wrong as compound classes need to be joined by "." i.e. minificha__sku.ng-binding unless you intended to insert a descendant combinator in there and look for a child node? – QHarr Mar 05 '21 at 20:25
I didn't understand – PDHide Mar 05 '21 at 21:55

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 15 '21 at 19:28

To identify the element you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using FindElementByClassName I:

bot.FindElementByClassName("minificha__sku")

Using FindElementByClassName II:

bot.FindElementByClassName("ng-binding")

Using FindElementByCss:

bot.FindElementByCss("span.minificha__sku.ng-binding")

Using FindElementByXPath:

bot.FindElementByXPath("//span[@class='minificha__sku ng-binding']")

How to identify elements classname containing special characters using Selenium and VBA

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