Search⌘ K
AI Features

Working with Dynamically Generated IDs, Special Keys, and Unicode

Explore how to identify elements with dynamic IDs using regular expressions, send various special keys like Enter or Control in Selenium scripts, and incorporate Unicode characters to enhance your web testing automation skills.

Identify element IDs with dynamically generated long prefixes

We can identify the static part of an element ID or Name by using the regular expression. Consider the example of an HTML fragment for a text box ...

HTML
<input id="ctl00_m_g_dcb0d043_e7f0_4128_99c6_71c113f45dd8_ctl00_tAppName_I"
name="ctl00$m$g_dcb0d043_e7f0_4128_99c6_71c113f45dd8$ctl00$tAppName"/>
...