Selenium checking checkbox

Question

How can I select the following check-box, if I only have these attributes?

<input style="font-size: 30%" onclick="remove_descriptions( this );" onchange="remove_descriptions( this );" type="checkbox">

I have tried several ways using xPath but I have had no luck.

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@type='checkbox']"));

UPDATE

I cannot edit the HTML or CSS files.

add extra class to your checkbox and findElement(By.className("myCheckbox")) — Sergii Lagutin
– Sergii Lagutin, Commented Jul 16, 2015 at 19:18
add some more of the surrounding html, from there it will be a lot easier to help you out by providing a working xpath. — Cathal
– Cathal, Commented Jul 16, 2015 at 19:38

Striter Alfa · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-16 19:55:53Z

If you want keep using XPath to select it, a good idea is find a tag with an ID that your checkbox are inside and start the selector using this reference. An example:

<div id="my-id">
   <input type="checkbox" class="my-class">
   <input type="checkbox">
   <input type="checkbox" class="my-class">
</div>

The selector to find the 3rd element:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("(//div[@id='my-id']/input)[3]"));

The selector to find the 2nd element with class "my-class":

driver.findElement(By.xpath("(//div[@id='my-id']/input[@class='my-class'])[2]"));

If necessary, you can try find it by label and select ancestors tags with xpath parent. After, you easily can navigate children tags by xpath

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