Can Selenium evaluate all XPath elements?

Question

Is it possible for Selenium to evaluate all the elements that may match a certain XPath?

For instance, I'd like to evaluate whether all checkboxes are checked with //input[type='checkbox']--problem is I only get one element returned.

Answer 1

You can use the getXpathCount command to determine the number of matching elements. You can then loop through them using an increment to locate each element individually. The following Java (TestNG/JUnit) example would check that all checkboxes on a page are checked:

int totalCheckboxes = session().getXpathCount("//input[@type='checkbox']").intValue();
for (int i = 1; i < totalCheckboxes+1; i++) {
    assertTrue(session().isChecked("//input[@type='checkbox'][" + i + "]"));
}

Answer 2

I tried the above approach and selenium was throwing exceptions that element is not found.Adding prefix xpath= resolved the problem.

example

xpath=(//td[@class='cell name bold'])[1]
xpath=(//td[@class='cell name bold'])[2]