title: Using wildcards in Selenium IDE
body: <p>I'm somewhat new to automation, and am learning everything auto-didactically, so forgive me if my terminology is a bit off. I've searched hi and low for an answer to this question, and I can't seem to find anything. I presume it's my small vocabulary when it comes to this stuff... anyway...</p>
  
  <p>I'm attempting to write a test that performs all the actions necessary to complete a tutorial by using the recorder. However, for one particular step, the element ID changes. For example, the ID I'm trying to <strong>click</strong> is this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>//li[@id='message_661119']/div[2]/div[2]/a/img
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, for each new user that is performing the tutorial "quest", the number of the id changes. </p>
  
  <p>Is there anyway to get Selenium to recognize, or use, wildcards? Example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>//li[@id='message_******']/div[2]/div[2]/a/img
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Of course, the example above does not work.</p>
  
  <p>Any advice would be immensely helpful. Thank you!!</p>