XPath Selectors.

driver.findElement(By.xpath(“ // ...”));
element.findElement(By.xpath(“ // ...”));
element.findElement(By.xpath(“. // ...”));

By Index

• //td[text()='Books']
• (//li)[1]
• (//li)[last()]
• (//li)[1]/..
• (//li)[last()]/..
• //nodename[3] - 3rd child of its parent node
• (//nodename)[3] - 3rd nodename element

Xpath Axes

• AxisName::nodetest[predicate]
• ex. //td[text()='Books']/ancestor::table
• AxisName
• ancestor
• ancestor-or-self
• descendant
• descendant-or-self
• following
• following-sibling
• preceding
• preceding-sibling
• parent
• child
• self

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//td[text()='Books']/ancestor::table"));

// driver.findElement(By.xpath(“//...”)); 
// element.findElement(By.xpath(“//...”)); 
// element.findElement(By.xpath(“.//...”));

// Notice the difference
//
// <div id="id0">
//        <p>Hello</p>
// </div>
// <div id="id1">
//        <p>World</p>
// </div>

// current node is "driver"
driver.findElement(By.id("id1"))
        .findElement(By.xpath("//p")).getText()  //=> Hello  
driver.findElement(By.id(“id1”))
        .findElement(By.xpath(".//p")).getText() //=> World