Dynamic XPath in Selenium using Different Approaches

[@aishwaryapathak553]

Hi Mukesh , Just wanted to appreciate the way of teaching and explaining you do. I enrolled for selenium class room training but your online sessions proved to be more effective. Thanks

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Aishhwarya, Thank you so much :) I am glad it helped you. Keep visiting and Happy Weekend.

[@gnreddyk7866]

Dear Mukesh,Investing your time to fulfill our minds with these concepts is Awesome task..We are grateful to your time..With folded hands ..thanks alot .

[@Mukeshotwani]

Your most welcome mate :) Kindly share with your friends too.

[@karthickshiva2671]

Once I thought I can never learn Selenium, now you are also one of the reason where i started automating some web pages. thanks brother you are awesome

[@MyGreatAchievers]

My hunt for XPATH ends here Mukesh...u r simply awesome.....Disappointed as there are only 29k views....deserves more...

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Rao :) Views are less but user attention is high. Keep visiting

[@towhidskynet]

12:15, 16:00, 9:00, 20:50,25:00 Very good examples of : 1. how to see number of matching nodes 2. use of and or logic 3. use of text() and contains(), starts-with() method. 4. use of following

[@mohammedmoosasharieff1816]

Thanks Mukesh... Wanted to learn writing xpath since months! The video has been helped a lot.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Moosa, I will glad you understood Xpath concept.

[@vrjosyula]

Thanks a lot Mukesh. This video cleared a lot of my doubts and gave a lot of insight.

[@Mukeshotwani]

+vrjosyula let me know if any help from my side.

[@saiputlur]

thats very precise and clear explanation. easily understandable. thanks a lot.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hey Krishna Thank you :) I am glad it helped you. Keep visiting.

[@seetalbachu758]

Very good tutorial. Easy to understand.

[@Mukeshotwani]

+Seetal Bachu Thanks Seetal keep visiting :)

[@vamsi476giet]

The most important thing in selenium is to find the element and thanks for explaining it in very detailed manner

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Vamsi

[@ajaysuresh3781]

Thanks Mukesh. Your tutorials are really helpful and informative

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Ajay

[@rekham9489]

Very Nice and easy to understand....best tutorials. Thank You Mukesh Sir :-)

[@abhisheknimbalkar8509]

Thanks Mate... Xpath was never so easy to understand. Keep up the great work ...

[@Mukeshotwani]

+Abhishek Nimbalkar Thank you Abhishek :)

[@seemaahuja1750]

Thanks a lot mukesh for this excellent vedio

[@Mukeshotwani]

+Seema Ahuja thank you Seema keep visiting and let me know if any help required from my side. Happy weekend

[@chinmayachittaranjanjena2575]

Good Tutorial, understood how to make xpath

[@Mukeshotwani]

+Chinmaya chittaranjan jena Thanks Chinmaya

[@nikhiltinku3232]

Thankyou Mukesh, your videos are really helpful.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thank you Nikhil 😀

[@rd669]

very useful video. Thank you so much Mukesh!

[@Mukeshotwani]

THanks mate

[@MdAlam-ie7fg]

Hey, Mukesh thank you very much, its really helpful

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Alam

[@grijeshmnit]

Thanks Very much. You saved my lots of time and efforts (y)

[@Mukeshotwani]

Welcome Grijesh

[@AJAUTOMATION]

Brilliant job Mukesh..I have learnt a lot from you.. #AjAutomation

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks a ton mate

[@mykyramylife]

Thanks Mukesh, very useful.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks mate

[@pratikkhakria6319]

Wonderful Mukesh. This video is awesome. :)

[@AbhishekGupta-kn8pv]

It was quite knowledgeable...waiting for another one..However I would request to upload a video on CssSelectors also...Thanks.

[@Mukeshotwani]

+abhishek gupta CSS will updoad next weekend

[@najeebzahed6348]

For the example you used on 16:27 here's the XPath I use able to use today: //td[@class='t posts']//a[contains(text(),'Posts')]

[@siyarsahar9954]

Dear Mukesh Thanks for all the videos you make! in 23 rd minute, you talk about if id is dynamic, so we use starts-with, but you forget to write starts-with and you write contains.

[@chaitanya2590]

Video was very helpful , Thank you!

[@Mukeshotwani]

+Chaitanya G.A Your most welcome let me know if any help from my side.

[@asmarazaq9122]

Thankyou Mukesh, it was really helpful

[@Mukeshotwani]

Most welcome Asma... keep learning.. Happy to see that you are learning over weekend 😃

[@LINGAREDDYSabbasani]

Very good explanation thank you !!

[@bobin1619]

good explanation..

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Bobby

[@ppatel332]

Thanks sir. This video is really useful.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Welcome, Parthiv... Please keep visiting...

[@atulthorat5670]

Thank you Mukesh..!

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Atul

[@pinkisukhwani9600]

Hi Mukesh, you are doing great ...!! can you pls make video on "Parameterizing xpath"

[@dbvs007]

Very useful thanks Mukesh

[@Mukeshotwani]

+Bhanu Surendra THanks Bhanu keep visting

[@ramgupta4567]

Nice video on Xpath.Thanks Mukesh

[@khyatisingh404]

Sir I love you !u have given me a solution thank you!

[@tarunakalra8993]

Hi Mukesh ..Your sessions are really helpful but it would be good if you write sequence number of sessions for beginners.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Taruna, sure I will make them is sequence soon.

[@SagarKumar-rg8xc]

very well explained, good learning from you

[@dbvs007]

Syntax seems incorrect when we want to use multiple attributes(video @11:14 min) , @ symbol is missing for the 2nd attribute.... Thanks

[@Mukeshotwani]

+Bhanu Surendra I will make changes

[@PradeepChauhan17]

Very informative video. Thank you for this. Few questions: 1. (Ref:17:48) At some place you mentioned @name='value'. At another you mentioned @href, 'edit.php'. The = is not mandatory? Where all it's used? 2. (Ref:17:40) How to find how many methods (like contains, text, etc.) are available? 3. On FireFox 59 (Quantum) how do I per a search for the XPath ? Do I see a similar search box like I see in FireBug/FirePath which is incidentally not supported.

[@shivuvali]

hi mukesh..what is the version of the FF you have used in the above tutorial.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Shiv I used FF 46

[@and7998]

Awesome video! keep up the good work. Can you also upload a tutorial on how to work with s and windows handles in selenium?

[@Mukeshotwani]

+Anu Dube Hi Anu for frames will upload tomorrow. For window handle please refer below link. Note- Please use headphones for this video voice is very low. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5SkdZKbfppjrJo

[@santosh830]

In hybrid driven framework,why did you use local driver in homepage.your explanation is excellent.thank you

[@mastanmmr374]

hi mukesh' when to use absolulative & relative xpath

[@Mukeshotwani]

It is up to your requirement I use combination of both.

[@arijitbhattacharjee5243]

Hi Mukesh Sir, Thank you so much. Its really helpful. But i have one query: How to handle auto-suggest search drop down in selenium webdriver? Can you please guide.

[@Mukeshotwani]

You can use findElements method and list concept in Selenium to handle autosuggestions.

[@Jayakrishna-ly3ei]

4:38 hi sir, 1st we write username, we gave a tab button, now we are in password textbox,we send data now in this . how to write the program for this ?

[@Mukeshotwani]

You can use sendKeys with Keys option or Actions class.

[@Jayakrishna-ly3ei]

@@Mukeshotwani I tried sir I am not getting. Can u send me that 4 or 5 lines code sir ?

[@piyushratnam5490]

Hi Mukesh, Thanks for this Video, you have nicely explained everything, learnt a bit more about writing XPATHs. One thing stroked my mind - Does HTML have a tag as well, got confused with below example, Syntax : //tagname[starts-with(@attribute-name,’’)] e.g. //id[starts-with(@id,’’)]

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Piyush, HTML is the parent tag but it does not have any id. Xpath examples will be applicable for other elements.

[@nihardash9619]

Hi Mukesh,the website you are using for example not working in google chrome(wordpress),can u use some other geninue websites which are working in google chrome and explain the same things .Thanks for your videos

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Nihar, you can use this application for testing opensource-demo.orangehrmlive.com/

[@sankassasenevirtha2049]

Really helpfull

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Sankassa

[@muthuvel2390]

hi mukash thanks for your video it is very helpful and i have one doubt if xpath values are changed dynamically interviewer asked that question so i dont know how to answer ths question so please.

[@Iceeboltt]

Hey Mukesh so what is wrong if we use the same xpaths why we need to customize xpaths what is the benefit in that for a tester ?

[@KevinLi-wx1kq]

Any info about how to handle svg object/graph (using css/xpath) in Webdriver?

[@Mukeshotwani]

+Kevin Li Hi Kevin, Any example of SVG objects?

[@gavishwa]

Nice One Mukesh.Thanking you for sharing the info. From FireFox v 57 we do not have support for Fire Bug. Could you please share more info on how to get the x path by using fire fox v 57..

[@praveen420ify]

1. Open mozila Developer window.( Press f12) 2. Spy on required Element. 3. right click on Path comes in Developer window after spying element 4. Click COPY option and then U can select xpath( Or other locator options)

[@luckywithpooji-telugu]

can u upload all ur selenium clases in sequential mannaer we not able to find ur all videos regarding selenium

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Lakshmi I will rearrange them soon

[@Deliquesent]

What is the need of using OR and AND functions in Xpath. If we can find a webelement with 1 unique attribute, then is there a need to specify the other attribute too?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Sakshi, in case if one attribute changes so other will be used for identifying web elements.

[@momomeshtv7318]

can we find the xpath of facebook video / post comments? it appears to be a list or something that needs to click before it expands out.... furthermore it doesn't show ALL the comments you have to click on the view more to get all.... is that doable with selenium?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Buddy please check this www.selenium.dev/documentation/en/worst_practices/gmail_email_and_facebook_logins/

[@arundhathimurthy3176]

contains function(16:03) didn't work because of wrong syntax. //input[contains(@name,'post_title')] should work.

[@vijayaidni]

good observation

[@nitingupta82]

Another excellent video Mukesh! But please help me explain the difference when we are using the text() method. There are 2 ways it shows for text() ' = ' & ' , ' . One form is //a[contains(@href, 'edit.php'')][text() = 'Posts'] and other is //a[contains(text(), 'Dismiss this message')] Am not sure which method should we follow = or , after text() method. Is there any standard that must be followed or it's more of hit n trial in particular for text() method?

[@Mukeshotwani]

+Nitin Gupta Hi Nitin let me clear it Text()- This will chek for exact text and if found then only it will return result. while contains(text(),'')- it only check partial text

[@siddeshwarmithbavkar4232]

Really awesome!!

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thank you Siddeshwar

[@sajeerkunnoth6630]

In this video, 16 second's you are explaining how to use contains, but it's not working because you have used "//input[contains(@name='post_title')] " In my understanding if your using contains you have to use coma. Eg: //input[contains(@name='post_title')]

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Sajeer Thank you for correcting me.

[@parulisha]

Hi Can you help writing the code if there are 100 text fields on one Page and we want to count the number of such fields which are purgent? Thanks

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Parul nice question you can use findElements and then size method to get the count learn-automation.com/difference-between-findelement-and-findelements-in-selenium-webdriver/

[@parulisha]

Thanks Mukesh.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Cheers

[@srinivastrully3789]

HI Mukesh, Is XPATH value depends on the browser ? I have heard that, xpath found in FF is different to the one in IE; Is this true?

[@ravi_nelluri]

In my application I have two fields say Email id and Conform Email id . For both of them id,class name everything is same. In this situation who can i find specific test box

[@Mukeshotwani]

+Ravi Nelluri in part 2 I have covered this scenario please visit part2

[@MukeshKumar-iw7rr]

Hi Mukesh, thanks for this video. Can you upload videos on how to find xpath for SVG and AngularJS as well.

[@sudheer1330]

Hi Mukesh, While adding Assert, am getting error "This element neither has attached source nor attached Javadoc and hence no Javadoc could be found.". could you please help.

[@Mukeshotwani]

You can attach SRC jar then this error wont come

[@vishavgupta3717]

Thank you very much

[@kokilajs7796]

Hello sir, I have to write the dynamic xpath so that everytime it should increment and pass that value to xpath and this xpath finding can go upto 2 or 3 pages

[@Mukeshotwani]

Yes Kokila what issue you are facing?

[@tomg2982]

Hi Mukesh, This is really good tutorial, thank you. Could you please explain how to find xpath for elements which are repeated several times in several the same tagnames ex: for odds in bet365 : the following sentence : 10/1 is repeated over 10 times. How to write xpath for the one interresting me? Regards: Tom

[@ravikumar-sharma-k]

Tomasz G use xpath like this:WebElement element = //*[@class=gl-Participant_Odds].It will find all elements with that class.

[@ravikumar-sharma-k]

Tomasz G use xpath like this:WebElement element = //*[@class=gl-Participant_Odds].It will find all elements with that class.

[@towhidskynet]

do you still have this workdpress site? if so, could you please post the link ? Thanks

[@dilshodalikiulov2150]

Thanks

[@Mukeshotwani]

+Dilshod Alikiulov welcome mate

[@tapaskhandai]

Which browser u r using?

[@Mukeshotwani]

it is Firefox earlier we have firebug and firepath where we used to write xpath.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Tapas here is the link for updated video kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZu3pHqkoLWEe8U

[@tapaskhandai]

@@Mukeshotwani Thank you

[@manishrajurkar8161]

HI Mukesh, In Salesforce Lightning mode, with AURA framework, there are no unique attributes identified. we are taking reference of the preceding /following and taking index number element to generate XPath. However, there are still more challenge, the XPath you design will not work next time on UI index get changed. are there any best practice to deal with this situation?

[@Herrmann2k]

I am also facing the same issue using Salesforce Lightning, the index gets changed after a few runs. can you please suggest how do we deal in this?

[@lorenzovidaurre1491]

Hola a todos!! me sucede lo mismo, si tiene alguna ayuda comenten, por favor

[@lorenzovidaurre1491]

con este Xpath //a[@class='select' and @xpath='1'] puedo encontrarlo en ChroPath el elemento buscado, pero cuando lo ingreso en el Xpath muestra error Select drpCountry = new Select (driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@class='select' and @xpath='1']")));

[@sangeetham3533]

Hi mukesh, how can i compare string value and webelement in if condition ,suppose i want to compare actual and expected ,actual is string and expected is of type webelement.please suggest me

[@prc6075]

Hi Mukesh What will be the xpath for getting the dynamic id of the radio button. Here i enter data (4 text boxes) and click on add button, the data is added and displayed with a radio button. If i add 2 times then 2 rows of data added with radio button for each row of data (e.g. radio0 and radio1). so to delete that row i have to selet radio button and click delete button. Now how to select radio1 and delete that row?? I tried with xpath but not able to do it.

[@chandanrai6302]

hi sir thanks for your video,please clear my one doubt if in web table duplicate name is available and unique transation id is available then how to verify the data on the basics of the transation id please let me know REPLY

[@himanshuthakur1605]

hi mukesh . An interviewer ask me how to handel if there is suppose in one row display ''himanshu'' as link and next to column again ''himanshu'' as a text and below this row in another row written ''himanshu'' as text and next to another column ''himanshu'' as link. then how will be locate ''himanshu'' in 2nd row first column then click on link ''himanshu'' in 2nd column with out using xpath or other locator? this kind of scenario was there? Pls help me

[@nmkkannan1256]

Use findElements(By.linkText()). Use index to specify

[@keshojukavya2830]

Hi Mukesh, How do we create xpath in chrome? Because there is no firebug in firefox now. Please help

[@Mukeshotwani]

Here is the link kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3-adoWPjMedq9k

[@bibhutijha1113]

Hi Mukesh , Basically I am QTP tester and i have started learning selenium recently . So i would like to know if there is any like register user function which is used in QTP through which we can check the object existence or perform any action without writing the codes again and again we have to write a single function then we have to pass the object to that function and the required action is performed . So can we do it in selenium ? let me given an example :- WebElement UserName = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='user_login']")); if (UserName.isDisplayed()){ UserName.sendKeys("admin"); } So i want i dont have to write these 3 above line . i will just pass xpath , value , varaible name. please help

[@lavanyaaparamanandham4088]

Hi Mukesh, I am new to selenium, I am practicing to write my own xpath in your blog. I am trying to mouse hover to automation tools tab, I am trying to create my own xath for that, but I am getting error. can you please help me action.moveToElement(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(text(),'Automation Tools')]"))).build().perform();. the error I am getting is unable to locate element.

[@joshnaranimohapatro4132]

please give me the link ,for learn automation for dynamic x path

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Anjali, here is the link learn-automation.com/how-to-write-dynamic-xpath-in-selenium/

[@sudhakark8386]

Hi mukesh I am unable identify the drop down element. I.e //div[@class='mclc' and text()='002region'] how to identify this one.. could you please help me.

[@mushfiquazaman9597]

Helo Mukesh,your videos are so wonderful, But I cannot access learn-automation.com site. isn't it open for everybody. Please help. Thanks.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Zaman, There was some maintenance so blog was down,

[@subhasisrupali]

Hey Mukesh - Any idea if firebug has been merged with firefox developer tool? I have FF 51 on my laptop and firebug 2.0.18 is deactivated. There is no way for me to check the xpath. Can someone please help on this.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Subhasis, Kindly use FF 48 or 50 then install firebug from add on it is working for me.

[@chetu19]

ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ Firefox release versions.

[@prashanttiwari5855]

Hi Subhasis, you have install the older version 50.1.0 for FF. the latest version is not supporting firebug.

[@pushpaksharma9906]

Hi Subhasis, Please perform the below steps 1. Open a new tab in the browser 2. type about:config 3. Now search for browser.tabs.remote.autostart 4. Toggle the value to False Hope this will work

[@Mukeshotwani]

Use FF 46

[@baldygaming2226]

Hi mukesh, im having trouble with xpath, my issue is this. it works perfectly fine with firefox but then it comes to chrome it gives me this kind of error org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: Element ... is not clickable at point (1364, 408). Other element would receive the click: ... im just confused why? Thank you again mukesh have a blessed day

[@mitanayak4401]

its really helpful,but how to get the firepath in our browser?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hey Mita, you can use default firefox profile so when you will start the test you will get the firepath plugin too.

[@mitanayak4401]

Hi Mukesh,ya i got it,its an extra addon i ve to install.Learnt something new,really helpful.Thanks.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Cheers

[@Yuvaind]

Mukesh otwani pls send me ur mail id: My mail id: [e-mail] send me empty mail

[@Bujji28243]

we have two fields username and password ,but our attribute both r same example id=ABC, both username and password attribute s r same then how we can pass text only one field username???how to write xpath???

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Nagu, You can use findElements and get the index and play with web elements.

[@Bujji28243]

Thanks for giving a reply but little bit confusion, how to perform index number can you write sample code for me, please......

[@90ankush]

Hi Mukesh, In other video you explained the exception which comes when we use FF 47 and selenium 53. So as per you i degraded FF to 46.0. It worked perfectly fine for a day or two. But again it started throwing org.openqa.selenium.firefox.NotConnectedException. Could you please help here . Thanks !! Ankush

[@Mukeshotwani]

Stick to 45 and Selenium 2.53 which will make test stable.

[@vvkkumar3691]

"org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotInteractableException: Element is not reachable by keyboard" . I am getting this error could you help me.

[@Mukeshotwani]

HI Kumar please check below link learn-automation.com/invalidelementstateexception-in-selenium-webdriver/

[@luckywithpooji-telugu]

if we dont use firebug addin how derive xpath with our wonself

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Lakshmi we have new plugin for xpath now kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZu3pHqkoLWEe8U

[@julyuser1030]

Good

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks

[@RajuDas-zn3gx]

Mukesh, for my application I have written a xapth to identify a label as //td[text()=‘CK_SUM’] and this works good for chrome but does work for ie. can you please help me to fix this?

[@vishwa2433]

Xpath for ie some time change, check the unique identifier for parent /grand parent and find the child td

[@narasimhareddy1103]

Nice Video Mukesh. I am facing difficult in identitifying the xpath for an element called "My Account" button in the home page of the url "www.phptravels.net/". I have tried using Firebug and absolute Xpath. The problem is in webpage the Web Element is highlighted but during run time the WebDriver is unable to Identity the button. Please Help.

[@hakan.tektas]

How do I capture dynamic id.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Tektas any example so that I can show you the solution..

[@hakan.tektas]

I can't share the code, but there is a situation. The input screen also changes the ID page every time you refresh.

[@kalyantpv]

I had a similar situation where the id was changing based on the data that shows up on screen. However, it was based on a particular logic.. so the id was being suffixed by an id in database etc.. so I wrote code to first figure out what that value would be depending on input data and then dynamically figure out the id. Maybe your situation is even more dynamic?

[@swatimishra6781]

Sir please explain how automate pie chart in using selenium python.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hey Swati, I wont recommend to automate pie chart.

[@swatimishra6781]

@@Mukeshotwani sir Than how to read data in side of pie chart using selenium python? How to validate pie chart data?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Swati as I said this won’t be stable plus in Automation reading chart graph bar code and images don’t automate.

[@sanjeevgautam90]

Hello sir, I can't able to login on www.demosite.center/wordpress/wp-login.php with user id: admin & Password : demo123 It's showing 404 error

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hey Sanjeev kindly use below site for demo demo.avactis.com/4.7.9/

[@priyankag2354]

hi mukesh !This is also not working

[@nmkkannan1256]

How to locate Xpath by text if the text is 'I'm Feeling Lucky'

[@Mukeshotwani]

+Inty Uyghur haha very nice 👍🏻 Inty

how i get this addon to firefox ?? please help me

[@arsaurabh6044]

www.techbeamers.com/use-firebug-and-firepath-in-firefox/

[@swagatikamohapatra5428]

hay ..mukesh that password is not accepting in the login page

[@Mukeshotwani]

Kindly use below url for practice enterprise.demo.orangehrmlive.com/symfony/web/index.php/auth/login

[@neelamchakraborty9062]

How to get xpath of watermark .

[@Mukeshotwani]

Any example or demo site for this ?

[@neelamchakraborty9062]

Don't know was asked in interview. How to get an xpath of a watermark. if you find something please share. I guess this is a transparent object such as company logo.

[@purusingh2793]

i am not getting the html content pls help me..........

[@sayari_sachanji]

In this video, we don't have Mukesh voice