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Posted: **Wed Feb 19, 2014 12:38 pm**

Hi I have a problem with dynamic IDs. We use the JS Framework.
I have a link witch is a Button that is generated dynamically.
The example can be found here.

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.//div[#'ifrdiv_comcat']/iframe[@id='ifr_comcat']//a[#'form_vertical_toolbar:j_idt112:create']

How can i handle the dynamic ID? I have no other Attribute that i can use.

j_idt112

Is there a method how to

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j_idt112

can be replaced by a placeholder or similar?
Like this

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.//div[#'ifrdiv_comcat']/iframe[@id='ifr_comcat']//a[#'form_vertical_toolbar:*~~~:create']

Sorry for my English

Posted: **Wed Feb 19, 2014 2:19 pm**

Regular expressions (RegEx). In RanoreXPath you can use regex to do what you are wanting. Change the "=" to "~" and put the pattern you want to match in the single quotes like so:

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.//div[#'ifrdiv_comcat']/iframe[@id='ifr_comcat']//a[@id~'form_vertical_toolbar\:.*\:create']

(Note that I used the "\" to escape the ":" characters, since they are considered special in regex and we want to match the actual character in your pattern.)

The "#" symbol in RanoreXPath means "unique ID" so you can substitute "@id=" or "@id~", etc.

This will find all atags under the iframe with an id attribute that is similar to 'form_vertical_toolbar:<any id>:create'.

http://www.regular-expressions.info/ is a great site for understanding RegEx.

Posted: **Wed Feb 19, 2014 2:40 pm**

Thanks!

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