Useful XPath Expressions

For Selenium beginners, the below listed XPath examples are really helpful to write a relative XPath instead of messing up with an absolute one.

1) Select First & Last Node

• Selecting first hyper link in a page_xpath=/descendant::a[1]
• Selecting first link using Position method_xpath=/descendant::a[position()=1]
• Selecting last link_xpath=/descendant::a[last()]
• Selecting first link which has innerText as ‘English’:xpath=/descendant::a[text()=’English’][1]
• Selecting first input tag which has ‘class’ attribute_xpath=/descendant::input[@class][1]

2) Selecting a node using multiple condition

• Selects input tag using ‘type’ and ‘class’ attributes value_xpath=//input[@type=’text’ and @class=’gbqfif’]
• Selects a button which has name and class attributes: xpath=//button[@name and @class]

3) Getting parent node from child node

• Gets the input tag’s parent node using ‘..’ : xpath= //input[@name=’q’]/..

4) Selecting parent node from child node

• Selects the ‘DIV’ which is having ‘INPUT’ tag: xpath=//div[input]