Locator types

Question 1

Use XPath to find div with id “content” which contains table, navigate to input in the 3rd td of the second tr, and enter number 100 into input.

Answer 1

driver.findElement(
By.xpath(“.//*[@id = ‘content’]/table/tr[2]/td[3]/input”))
.sendkeys(“100”);

Question 2

How to find an HTML tag using XPath? Show example.

Answer 2

with //
Example: driver.findElement(By.xpath(“//form”)

Question 3

Using XPath to find a form with action “blah”

Answer 3

driver.findElement(
By.xpath("//form[@action='blah']");

Question 4

What “.” means in XPath?

Answer 4

. represents the current element.
For example:
.//input[@name=’radio’] and //input[@name=’radio’]
The first statement looks for all “inputs” with name=’radio’ beneath the actual element.
The second statement looks globally for all input elements with the name ‘radio’.

Question 5

How to specify any element using XPath?

Answer 5

With

*

for example:

driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id = 'content']");

Question 6

What are / and . in XPath?

Answer 6

They represent absolute and relative XPaths (/ vs .)
/ introduces an absolute location path, starting at the root of the document.
. introduces a relative location path, starting at the context node.

Question 7

How to search by 2 attributes using XPath?

Answer 7

driver.findElement(By.xpath(“//input[@name=’name’][@value=’some-value’]”);

Question 8

What “*” means in XPath?

Answer 8

Any tag, for example: driver.findElements(By.xpath(“.//*[@name = ‘radio-buton’]”));

Question 9

How to use OR and AND operators in XPath?

Answer 9

//input[@id=’name’ or @name=’name’]

Question 10

Using XPath, how to find “a” link with text “Click Me”

Answer 10

//a[text()=’Click Me’]

Question 11

Using XPath, how to find any element with text “Click Me”

Answer 11

//*[text()=’Click Me’]

Question 12

Using XPath, how to find element containing partial text

Answer 12

//tagname[contains (@Attribute, ‘Value’)]

or using Text:

//tagname[contains(text(),'XYZ')]

Question 13

How to find elements by multiple class names?

Answer 13

By.cssSelector(“.class1.class2”)
or
By.cssSelector(“div.class1.class2”)
or
By.xpath(“//div[contains(@class, ‘class1’) and contains(@class, ‘class2’)]”

Question 14

How to maximize window using WebDriver?

Answer 14

driver.manage().window().maximize();