How to get the xpath of a WebElement?

[chsonnu]

After finding an element by xpath wildcards, is there a way to extract
the specific xpath from the returning WebElement?

[Tarun Bhadauria]

A lil confusing, can you post an example?

[chsonnu]

Sure.

# Find an element by xpath

foo = driver.FindElement(By.xpath("//div[text()='bar'"));

Now how would I extract the full xpath from foo? I'm talking the full
thing like "/html/body/div/div/div[2]/[div/div".

[micsky]

Here's what I use:

protected String getXPath() {
String jscript = "function getPathTo(node) {" +
" var stack = [];" +
" while(node.parentNode !== null) {" +
" stack.unshift(node.tagName);" +
" node = node.parentNode;" +
" }" +
" return stack.join('/');" +
"}" +
"return getPathTo(arguments[0]);";
return (String) driver.executeScript(jscript, webElement);
}


Cheers,
-Mike

[chsonnu]

Hi Mike, thanks a lot. I totally forgot that native javascript was
always available.

[Mark Collin]

My first question is why? What are you trying to achieve?

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[asif.r...@gmail.com]

Hi micksy

I an new to js and selenium webdriver. I used your code for the same purpose as defined by author chsonnu. But I received an error on executeScript in last line. Error says: Cannot find symbol: executeScript. Can  you tell me how to resolve this?

[Serguei Kouzmine]

You need to cast it, there are several valid syntax for that e.g.

if (driver instanceof JavascriptExecutor) {

JavascriptExecutor javascriptExecutor = JavascriptExecutor.class

.cast(driver);

return javascriptExecutor.executeScript(script, arguments);

Thanks

Serguei Kouzmine

[Moises Siles]

Why you need to get the xpath?

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