How to find XPath in Chrome Browser for Selenium WebDriver

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hope you will use above tips and do share your experience :) Have a nice day.

[@FelipeBarbosaGoogle]

Very good tutorial. I was looking exactly for relative xPaths, and your video is excellent about this subject.

[@roopashreegadam8265]

Hi Mukesh, This way of writing xpath in chrome really helped me a lot. Many times your videos helped e to resolve many of my issues Thank you so much

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hey Roopa, I am glad my videos helping you. Keep sharing this channel :) Let me know if you need any help on this.

[@sunayanakalekar2162]

hi mukesh ur videos are awesome n much in detail can u please post some more videos related to web services and other tools that a QA should know

[@VK-mf8cp]

When i click Ctrl+F5 then not able to see " Find by String, selectors or xpath " on windows 10, Chrome(ver-79.0.39). Please help in this.

[@hayaulislam]

i am using xpath , it is correct but still eclipse showing error that element not found. what can be the error?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Can u share the script? Chance are it may be in frame or your xpath is matching with multiple elements

[@hayaulislam]

@@Mukeshotwani package datepicker; import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.*; import org.openqa.selenium.*; import org.openqa.selenium.By; public class youtube_datepicker_tutorial { public static void main(String[] args) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); driver.get("www.phptravels.net/"); driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id=\"dpd1\"]/div/input")).click(); } }

[@hayaulislam]

Xpath is not working, in my project as well as i had tried with your example

[@razorback6996]

Best video on the subject! Thanks!!!!

[@Mukeshotwani]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks Buddy

[@shyamsundarghorai8054]

Hi Mukesh, I am new in Selenium and want to learn from very beginning. After a bit more research in Goggle and KZbin, I found your channel. This is really awesome. Only one problem I am facing that the videos do not have any serial no. or they are not in series. Could you please guide me that from which video I should start and how I can move forward ? Thanks in advance.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Sure Shyamsundar, I have noted your point and I will arrange them as per serial order.

[@mahammedyaseen6113]

can you please tell me is there anyway to write unique xpath without indexes?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Yaseen, if you add multiple attribute then xpath will be unique.

[@yaseensyed5593]

@@Mukeshotwani thank you so much for your reply Mukesh Bhai🤗

[@LINGAREDDYSabbasani]

Thank you Mukesh!! for the tips to identifying xpath in chrome

[@pushkarbajpai8989]

Very nice info Mukesh!!.Thanks for sharing

[@sameershaik2591]

Hi Mukesh sir By using chropath extension in chrome browser we can generate xpath

[@Mukeshotwani]

Yes Sameer it we can generate without extension as well

[@Priyachauhan1111]

Hi Mukesh sir, I have just started learning selenium from your videos, I am not able to post my query on your site.please help me with that. I am stuck with two words that is selenium driver and testNg, how this two differ from each other or are these interlinked.

[@yellayiaruna6170]

Hi Mukesh, Actually I have a doubt, Suppose that I am testing or running the script for Facebook, So when i would like to signup or register for the new account then to insert any text in the text box we need locate the element by ID/className and etc. So, could u tell me that the Id for any of the textbox gets changed frequently while inspecting?

[@trivenireddy9478]

Hi Mukesh, Hope you are doing good! , How to check xpath/css selectors using chrome/FF for the node.js type of applications? like I have been working web applications implemented using polymer components(i.e it has too many complex nested #shadow-root (open) tags ) To find one input box will be having mini 20 shadow-root in b/w from root main tag to inner child tag. Can you suggest Protractor with jasmine framework will support and report tools ?

[@hayaulislam]

Can you refer any course for complete understanding of Selenium IDE, instead of Selenium Webdriver

[@prikshitverma3885]

I am having trouble in locating a live chat bot....So I inspect and I am not able to find any locator so that I can use that in scripting ..How I can sovlve this?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hey Prikshit here is the video kzbin.info/www/bejne/faacgYN6l62HfdE

[@sadachougule7961]

Hello, One of the interview that was asked to me last week was... Was there any Data Limitation in your application? For ex: I can only enter 20 characters in my text box... If so then how did you handle that... I couldnt answer this because I havn't come across such situation... Can I get an answer for this? This question was asked by Client in Client round at JP morgan

[@towhidskynet]

do we have indexing for css selector also ?

[@Mukeshotwani]

not sure

[@krishnasamy3967]

If you could have the windows little adjusted, so that the scrolling red line of youtube video will not disturb the viewer`s ability to understand the xpath coding you are doing in future. In this video, example at 2:35 the xpath code you`ve written is just coming on the youtube`s red scrolling line !!

[@baldygaming2226]

Hi Mukesh currently i cant use firebug firepath anymore with firefox, do you have other tools for firefox for finding xpath, because i like making my own xpath

[@Mukeshotwani]

+Marven Policarpio yes 56 has some issue with firebug . Use 54 or previous version or lesser version. Hope it will get fixed in FF 57

[@baldygaming2226]

Mukesh otwani thanks mukesh still can use chrome though, but is there other way to search for an xpath in firefox like in chrome ctrl + f in the dev tools?

[@sumitingle5131]

Very useful Sir 🙏

[@sudhirbchauhan]

Very helpful..Thanks Mukesh..!

[@lovelymunjal6570]

HI Mukesh Another easy way: inspect element and then right click on highlighted HTML code , click copy > select Xpath

[@abhilashadeshpande7996]

Thank you

[@flatheadcatfish9]

Thank you

[@rickharbauer1219]

Great Tutorial! :)

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Rick :)

[@sachinbirajdarsa]

1 - inspect page 2 - select item you want (text field etc) 3 - hover mouse on inspection page and right click. There u can see copy xpath option.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Sachin, but this xpath is not dynamic most of the time.

[@sachinbirajdarsa]

@@Mukeshotwani should we practice it or not

[@Mukeshotwani]

@@sachinbirajdarsa try writing your own xpath which will help you.

[@mahmoudiwissem9240]

@@Mukeshotwani can we consider Copying the xpath option efficient and useful most of the time or not ?

[@gopikrishnagollaprolu6162]

Hi Mukesh, This parenthesis Work for only chrome or Mozilla also.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Yes it works for Firefox also

[@luistrejo9914]

I'm trying to do your exercise and I have some issues..... I have a button in a modal, but when I try to close it with this function driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[@type='button']")).click(); I don't have the correct result, can you help me please? These are my options that I tried..... //driver.close(); //WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 3); driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[@type='submit']")).click(); //driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@class='bootbox-close-button close']")).click(); //driver.findElement(By.className("//*[@class='bootbox-close-button']")).click(); //driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[2]/div/div/div[1]/@type='button']")).click(); //driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[2]/div/div/div[1]/button")).click(); //driver.switchTo().activeElement().sendKeys(Keys.ENTER); //driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[starts-with(@type,'button')]")).click(); //driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[2]/div/div/div[1]/button")).click(); //WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@test-type='button']")); //driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[contains(@type,'button')]")).click(); //driver.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("type=button"))).click(); //WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 5); //wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("button#button"))).click(); //Alert alert = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.alertIsPresent()); //alert.accept(); //WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10); //Now wait until this dialog close button visible and clickable then click //wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("/html/body/div[2]/div/div/div[1]/button"))).click(); //WebElement xButton = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".bootbox-close-button close")); //JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver; //js.executeScript("arguments[0].click()", xButton); //cancel_button = browser.div("@class= modal-footer").button(:class => "btn btn-danger"); //cancel_button.when_present.click(); // String winHandleBefore = // driver.getWindowHandle(); // driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[2]/div/div/div[1]/button")).click(); // Xpath of register Button // Set handles = (Set) driver.getWindowHandles(); //WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10); //Click on read more button to open this dialog //wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.partialLinkText("x"))).click(); //Now wait until this dialog close button visible and clickable then click //wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("button.bootbox-close-button close"))).click(); //driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[2]/div/div/div[1]/button[contains(@class,'bootbox-close-button close')]")).click(); //driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@tabindex='-1']//button[@type='button']")).click(); //driver.findElement(By.className("@class= bootbox-close-button close")).click(); //driver.findElement(By.className("//div[@class= 'bootbox modal fade in']/div[@class= 'modal-dialog']/div[@class= 'modal-content']/div[@class= 'modal-header']/button[@class= 'bootbox-close-button close']")).click(); //driver.findElement(By.className("//button[@class= 'bootbox-close-button close']")).click(); //driver.findElement(By.className("//button[starts-with(@class,'bootbox-close-button close')]")).click(); /*if(driver.switchTo().alert() != null) { Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert(); String alertText = alert.getText(); alert.dismiss(); // alert.accept(); }*/ //WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20); //wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.className("bootbox-close-button close"))).click(); //driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("body > div.bootbox.modal.fade.in > div > div > div.modal-header > button")).sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.ALT, Keys.F4)); //driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("body > div.bootbox.modal.fade.in > div > div > div.modal-header > button")).click(); //driver.findElement(By.className("bootbox-close-button close")).click(); //WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver(); //driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS); //driver.findElement(By.className("bootbox-close-button close")).click(); // Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert(); // System.out.println(alert.getText()); //try { // Thread.sleep(5000); // } catch (InterruptedException e) { // e.printStackTrace(); // } //alert.dismiss();

[@akanshasaraswat7274]

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[@Sarasu1.iihtvadapalani]

every thing is MAAS Mukesh Happy Diwali In Advance...

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Sharon

[@akanshasaraswat7274]

sir please share about "git hub" its reaaly very important . how to install and how to work on this, how to check repository all about this pls as soon as possible its urgent

[@swapnapradhan7072]

Did he share???

[@swapnapradhan7072]

if not could you please share with me.....plz

[@madhurichebbi2769]

Hello sir can you please tell me how to find xpath for tooltip text. I am unable to inspect the tooltip text. Please sir

[@salmanmohamed1993]

u can use tool tip text to identify it

[@TheHarmonicaDad]

Well explained

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Ranga

[@nehakatoch2261]

thanks for ur help..

[@Mukeshotwani]

Most welcome Neha.

[@kumarshailendrasoni]

Thanks mukesh!

[@jackjose2640]

How to find for an element with class=

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Jack, you can use className locator or xpath or css. Here is the links below Xpath kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6SaY6Bvptd0h5o CSS kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpPcZ5KNns6Xp68

[@hemanginipatel4410]

It helped

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thank you Hemangini

[@Sargam_Cafe]

it is great but here we are making x path and then searching it , I expected to get a xpath as tiltle says

[@arunprasadchief]

inspect, find the element, select copy, then "copy the xpath"

[@Mukeshotwani]

Yes Arun

[@Mukeshotwani]

But it will not be unique xpath which might fail your script in next iteration.

[@Melgarockk]

gracias

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thank you Juan

[@nehakanchi8573]

thanks

[@pedro8769]

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