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Selenium webdriver - failed to locate descendant object

I have a registration page.

In my test, I'm trying to register without a first name. Pressing the register button should display the a 'Required' notification label.

You can see the structure in the attached screenshot. I tried to get the text from the id 'firstName' by xpath, id, etc. It failed to locate this object.

My latest attempt: 

String test = driver.findElement(By.id("'firstName'/descendant::td[@class='alert alert-danger']")).getText();`

What am I missing?

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Solution

  • Try By.cssSelector("#firstName + registration-control-messages > div.alert")

    The By you are using is not correct.