"More than one element found for locator" warning

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alecxe picture alecxe · Feb 11, 2015 · Viewed 20.1k times · Source

In one of my tests, I'm locating an element using a CSS selector:

element(by.css("ul.nav button"))

There is more than one element matching the query, but, since I need only the first one, I'm okay with the selector.

The problem is, protractor throws a warning:

WARNING - more than one element found for locator By.cssSelector("ul.nav button") - the first result will be used

Is it possible to suppress the warning? In other words, how can I let protractor know that I'm aware of the problem and don't want the warning to be shown anymore?

Using protractor development version (installed directly from the master branch).

Answer

Isaac Lyman picture Isaac Lyman · Feb 11, 2015

Try this instead:

element.all(by.css("ul.nav button")).first()

Basically, this tells Protractor that you already know there's more than one element, and you just want the first one (like you said in your question).

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