Xpath not recognized

[Piotr]

In the web app I am testing against I've got the element:

<form name="aspnetForm" id="aspnetForm" onsubmit="javascript:return WebForm_OnSubmit();" action="default.aspx" method="post" sizcache="10" sizset="0">

The following code:

Element element1 = Find.ById("aspnetForm");
Element element2 = Find.ByXPath("//form[@id='aspnetForm']");
Element element3 = Find.ByXPath("//form[@name='aspnetForm']");

returns element1 as correct found element, wheras element2 and element3 are nulls. What is the reason for that?

IE8, WinXP.

[Anthony]

Hello Piotr,

I created the same element in a sample page, and the following code passed:

Manager.LaunchNewBrowser();
ActiveBrowser.NavigateTo("c:\\html\\comma2.html");

Element e1 = Find.ById("aspnetForm");
Element e2 = Find.ByXPath("//form[@id='aspnetForm']");
Element e3 = Find.ByXPath("//form[@name='aspnetForm']");

Assert.IsNotNull(e1);
Assert.IsNotNull(e2);
Assert.IsNotNull(e3);

 

What are we doing differently?

All the best,
Anthony
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