Selenium - Xpath locator

• By Tagname   //tagname[@attribute='value']

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@placeholder='Name']"))

 

• By index of the attribute //tagname[@attribute='value'][index]

 driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@type='text'][2]"))

        (Used when your attribute and the value are same for multiple elements) 

•  By tagnames when there are many instances of the childtag. //parenttag/childtag[index])

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//form/input[3]"))

(Use index when there are many instances of child tag and you have to locate one of them.)

• By parent to child-tag  //parenttag[@attribute='value']/childtag[index])

driver.findElement(By.xpath(" //div[@class='forgot-pwd-btn-
conainer']/button[1]")) 

 

•  With regular expression  //tagname[contains(@class,'value')]

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[contains(@class,'submit')]"))