Locate and check a input=checkbox inside a table
Hi everyone I'm having a hard time trying to check/click a checkbox, this is inside a dynamic table so when the page load the table is hidden until some parameters are passed, then the table is shown with two columns | checkbox | Some data | I tried with role, label, id, name, css, xpath but I have no luck there are other checkbox in the page and theres no issues with those only with the ones inside the table, it seems like is looking for it because I see the page scrolling up and down but never finds it.
I saw a similar issue to this but was solved on 1.33 and I'm on 1.38
Some code that I use to search
await page.locator("[name='student[]']").check()
await page.locator('//*[@id="student_183867"]').check()
const checkbox = page.locator('table tbody tr', { has: idLocator }).locator('input[type=checkbox]');
await checkbox.check();```
`await page.getByRole('row', { name: 'userI)' }).locator('#student_183867').check()`
**This is the element:**
```<input type="checkbox" class="custom-control-input single_student_select select_student" data-group="0" data-groupid="" name="student[]" id="student_183867" value="183867">```
Attached image of the table
This thread is trying to answer question "How can I locate and check a checkbox inside a dynamic table on a webpage?"
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Hello Stein, firstly I would advise you to put everything in 1 locator. This way you can see what you are selecting while your PW browser is open. I have similar tests and if I understand correctly:
First you can assert that the table is empty with something like expect(await page.locator("tbody tr").count()).toBe(0); after input you can add an waitfor the API that is bringing you the data for the table then you can assert the count again expect(await page.locator("tbody tr").count()).toBe(whatever number); then you can start with the checkboxes await page.locator("tbody tr td:first-child").check(); or something like that.
Yes I tried that too I have table A and B but is not working I use the same code to click on a checkbox in table B and is working but not in table A, I was looking and the only difference is after the td theres a div inside and then the input=checkbox
Table A: table#request_students tbody tr td:first-child #student_183867 not working
Table B: table#sessions-table tbody tr td:first-child #delete_session_253475 works
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