How can I use the selenium for accurately retrieving the Xpath?

 In the context of selenium, here are the steps given of how you can retrieve the Xpath of an element by using the selenium WebDriver:-

Inspect the element

First, you would need to inspect the element. For this, you can right-click on the statement in the browser and select “Inspect” to view its HTML infrastructure.

Using browser developer tools

You can use the browser’s developing tools to test the XPath expression.

Construction of the Xpath

Based on your construction you can inspect analyze, and construct the Xpath by using various attributes such as “class”, “name”, “text” etc. 

Testing and verify

You can use the selenium for testing the constructed Xpath and then you can verify that it accurately locates the desired element.

Here is an example given in Python which would show how you can retrieve the Xpath of an element by using the selenium:-

From selenium import webdriver

From selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

From selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait

From selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

# Initialize Chrome WebDriver

Driver = webdriver.Chrome()

# Navigate to the webpage

Driver.get(https://example.com)

# Define a function to generate XPath based on element attributes

Def generate_xpath(element):

    Xpath = “”

    Tag = element.tag_name

    If element.get_attribute(“id”):

        Xpath += f”//{tag}[@id=’{element.get_attribute(‘id’)}’]”

    Elif element.get_attribute(“class”):

        Xpath += f”//{tag}[@class=’{element.get_attribute(‘class’)}’]”

    Elif element.get_attribute(“name”):

        Xpath += f”//{tag}[@name=’{element.get_attribute(‘name’)}’]”

    Else:

        # If none of the above attributes are present, use element text

        Text = element.text.strip()

        Xpath += f”//{tag}[text()=’{text}’]”

    Return xpath

# Find the element using other locators (e.g., CSS selector)

Element_css = driver.find_element_by_css_selector(“input[type=’text’]”)

# Generate XPath for the element

Element_xpath = generate_xpath(element_css)

# Print the generated XPath

Print(“Generated XPath:”, element_xpath)

# Wait for the element to be visible using the generated XPath

Wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)

Element_found = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, element_xpath)))

# Perform actions with the located element (e.g., send_keys)

Element_found.send_keys(“Hello, Selenium!”)

# Close the WebDriver

Driver.quit()

Here is the example given In java programming language:-

Import org.openqa.selenium.By;

Import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

Import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

Import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

Import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;

Import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

Public class XPathGenerationExample {

    Public static void main(String[] args) {

        // Set ChromeDriver path

        System.setProperty(“webdriver.chrome.driver”, “path_to_chromedriver”);

        // Initialize Chrome WebDriver

        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

        // Navigate to the webpage

        Driver.get(https://example.com);

        // Find the element using other locators (e.g., CSS selector)

        WebElement elementCss = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(“input[type=’text’]”));

        // Generate XPath for the element

        String elementXPath = generateXPath(elementCss);

        // Print the generated XPath

        System.out.println(“Generated XPath: “ + elementXPath);

        // Wait for the element to be visible using the generated XPath

        WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);

        WebElement elementFound = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath(elementXPath)));

        // Perform actions with the located element (e.g., sendKeys)

        elementFound.sendKeys(“Hello, Selenium!”);

        // Close the WebDriver

        Driver.quit();

    }

    Public static String generateXPath(WebElement element) {

        String xpath = “”;

        String tag = element.getTagName();

        If (element.getAttribute(“id”) != null && !element.getAttribute(“id”).isEmpty()) {

            Xpath += “//” + tag + “[@id=’” + element.getAttribute(“id”) + “’]”;

        } else if (element.getAttribute(“class”) != null && !element.getAttribute(“class”).isEmpty()) {

            Xpath += “//” + tag + “[@class=’” + element.getAttribute(“class”) + “’]”;

        } else if (element.getAttribute(“name”) != null && !element.getAttribute(“name”).isEmpty()) {

            Xpath += “//” + tag + “[@name=’” + element.getAttribute(“name”) + “’]”;

        } else {

            // If none of the above attributes are present, use element text

            String text = element.getText().trim().replaceAll(\s+, “ “);

            Xpath += “//” + tag + “[text()=’” + text + “’]”;

        }

        Return xpath;

    }

}