If the HTML is as below: Check Our Demo Website! We can use like this //button as Xpath to find out element containing exactly 'Log In'. As name describes, 'Exactly' will try to find the exact match and Contains looks for multiple matches. When working with text, we will have two scenarios, one is 'Exactly' and other one is 'Contains'.

Now lets us look at the examples for 'Text'. How to match on text using CSS locators and Xpath Example css for child / sub child as div a In css this is very simple by using whitespace. In such cases, we can use two slashes to match any subnode for xpath. Css examples of a link inside of a div tag can be identified as div > aĪnd sometimes, if the element is not direct child, may be the element is inside another element. In CSS the child is indicated with a ' >'. How to access Child elements using css selectors Example XPATH for child elements : //div/a How to access direct child elements using xpathĪ child in XPATH is represented with a '/'. We can also define xpath with 'Style' attribute xpath transparent '] Using xpath : - or here first it will check for the id and then it will check for the second.īased on index also, we can define the path as can also define by the using the value attribute or Phone'] Here using xpath / Css, we can combine two locators when ever required, lets see how we can achieve. Identify element using multiple attributes We can directly use them by using id or name locators. With Name - css=input or css=Īll the above syntax are simple. With ID - css=input#email or css=#emailĢ.

With ID : - or we can also use as With Name - or we can also use as css we can use as below :ġ. Let us look for xpath examples to use ID and Name effectively with combinationsġ. Though we have some browser plug-ins to generate xpath or css selector, but they are not much useful in real time applications. In many cases like these, we depend locating elements by CSS or by XPath.

It is always very important to make test scripts robust with reliable locators that do not break until changes made. You don't need to search for any other locator if there is ID or unique name present in your application.īut with the applications designed using modern JavaScript Frameworks like Angular, React and Vue.js have no proper web elements in DOM. As we know it is always better to use ID and Name to locate the elements which will work for sure. It is very simple to locate elements if the HTML DOM has 'id' or 'name' and they are the safest locators to use. In order to perform any operation on the element like click or type into an element, we need to locate that element.

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