Today’s post aims to answer a pretty straightforward question: How do I find an element by XPath in Selenium? So, why is this a question worth tackling? What is XPath, and why should you care about it? Here on this blog, we’re all about software testing. Selenium is one of the most popular tools for…
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The battle of XPath vs CSS Selector is one that people approach differently—mostly because of preferences rather than the various implications of using either of the options. If you’ve ever had to pick between using XPath and CSS selectors, most likely the environment you were working in had more to do with your choice than…
Following my latest article “CssSelectors not only for styling” many people asked me about the difference between using CssSelector and XPath, and what are the benefits to using XPath as a locator. Sadly, I see many engineers struggling to identify an element by using other selectors, find themselves blindly copying a WebElement’s XPath using the…