find elements by xpath code example

Example 1: get element by xpath

function getElementByXpath(path) {
  return document.evaluate(path, document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue;
}

Example 2: find elements in selenium

#In Python

#Let's say that we want to locate the h1 tag in this HTML:
#<html>
#    <head>
#        ... some stuff
#    </head>
#    <body>
#        <h1 class="someclass" id="greatID">Super title</h1>
#    </body>
#</html>

h1 = driver.find_element_by_name('h1')
h1 = driver.find_element_by_class_name('someclass')
h1 = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//h1')
h1 = driver.find_element_by_id('greatID')

Example 3: get element by xpath

document.evaluate('XPATH HERE', document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue;

Example 4: selenium select element by id

driver.findElement(By.id("ui-datepicker-div"));

Example 5: relative xpath sample

//input[@id=’user-message‘]

Example 6: selenium ways of finding

elementcss= driver.findElement(By.cssSelector('div.nav-search-input'))