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I am using selenium and I need to find the XPaths of some selenium web elements.
For example:
import selenium.webdriver
driver = selenium.webdriver.Firefox()
element = driver.find_element_by_xpath(<some_xpath>)
elements = element.find_elements_by_xpath(<some_relative_xpath>)
for e in elements:
print e.get_xpath()
I know I can't get the XPath from the element itself, but is there a nice way to get it anyway?
I tried using lxml to parse the HTML, but it doesn't recognize the XPath, <some_xpath>, I passed, even though driver.find_element_by_xpath(<some_xpath>) did manage to find that element.
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Go to the First name tab and right click >> Inspect. On inspecting the web element, it will show an input tag and attributes like class and id. Use the id and these attributes to construct XPath which, in turn, will locate the first name field.
To identify the element with xpath, the expression should be //tagname[@attribute='value']. To identify the element with xpath, the expression should be //tagname[@class='value']. There can be two types of xpath – relative and absolute.
lxml can auto-generate an absolute xpath for you using getpath() method.
Example (using wikipedia main page, getting xpath expression for the logo):
import urllib2
from lxml import etree
data = urllib2.urlopen("https://en.wikipedia.org")
tree = etree.parse(data)
element = tree.xpath('//div[@id="p-logo"]/a')[0]
print tree.getpath(element)
Prints:
/html/body/div[4]/div[2]/div[1]/a
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