What is Xpath in Selenium?

XPaths in Selenium:

Selenium is a popular tool for automating web browsers, and it supports XPath as a way to locate elements on a web page. XPath is a powerful tool for selecting elements and data from an XML or HTML document, and it's widely used in development and testing.XPath is an important and core component of XSLT standard. It is used to traverse the elements and attributes in an XML document.

XPath is a language used to select elements in an XML or HTML document. XPath is used to locate elements on a web page. Selenium provides a find_element_by_xpath() method that allows you to locate an element using an XPath expression. We can select elements based on their attributes, their position in the document hierarchy, or their relationship to other elements.

Syntax:

1.Launching a web browser

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

2.Navigate to a web page:

driver.get('https://example1.com')

3.Locate an element using XPath:

element = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//tagname[@attribute="value"]'

where

The XPath expression consists of the following components:

• tagname: The name of the HTML tag of the element you want to select. For example, div, a, input, etc.

• @attribute: The name of the attribute you want to use to select the element. For example, class, id, name, value, etc.

• "value": The value of the attribute you want to use to select the element.

4.Locate an element with class attribute:

//div[@class='topic']

where 

// selects any element in the document hierarchy.

div selects all div elements.

[@class='topic'] selects only div elements that have a class attribute equal to "topic".