What is XPath in testing?

XPath is a technique in Selenium to navigate through the HTML structure of a page. XPath enables testers to navigate through the XML structure of any document, and this can be used on both HTML and XML documents.

How do I find the XPath of an element?

Right-click “inspect” on the item you are trying to find the XPath. Right-click on the highlighted area on the HTML DOM. Go to Copy > select ‘Copy XPath’. After the above step, you will get the absolute XPath of the element from DOM.

How do I find XPath in Chrome?

Press F12 to open Chrome Developer Tool. In “Elements” panel, press Ctrl + F. In the search box, type in XPath or CSS Selector, if elements are found, they will be highlighted in yellow.

What is XPath used for?

The XML Path Language (XPath) is used to uniquely identify or address parts of an XML document. An XPath expression can be used to search through an XML document, and extract information from any part of the document, such as an element or attribute (referred to as a node in XML) in it.

How do I find the XPath of a link?

XPath locator examples

  1. “raw” XPath. To find the link in this page:

    The fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.

  2. Child of Element ID. XPath can find an element by ID like this: //*[@id=”element_id”]
  3. Button Text.
  4. Text of element.
  5. The Nth element.

How do you check if XPath is correct or not?

From Console panel

  1. Press F12 to open up Chrome DevTools.
  2. Switch to Console panel.
  3. Type in XPath like $x(“.//header”) to evaluate and validate.
  4. Type in CSS selectors like $$(“header”) to evaluate and validate.
  5. Check results returned from console execution. If elements are matched, they will be returned in a list.

What is the easiest way to find XPath?

Go to the First name tab and right click >> Inspect. On inspecting the web element, it will show an input tag and attributes like class and id. Use the id and these attributes to construct XPath which, in turn, will locate the first name field.

What is XPath in HTML?

XPath is a major element in the XSLT standard. XPath can be used to navigate through elements and attributes in an XML document. XPath stands for XML Path Language. XPath uses “path like” syntax to identify and navigate nodes in an XML document.