xpath in firebug

[Ambika Rajagopalan]

in Firebug I am able to find absolute xpath which starts from //html.. which is not healthy to use in general. Is there any other xpath and how to find that in firebug?

[Leo Laskin]

Ambika,

There are multiple tools like Firefinder and Firepath that can help you, also you can figure it out yourself.

for example

//html/body/div[@id='blah]  can also be specified by //div[@id='blah'] or as just driver.findelement(:id => 'blah')

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Ambika Rajagopalan <amb...@gmail.com> wrote:

in Firebug I am able to find absolute xpath which starts from //html.. which is not healthy to use in general. Is there any other xpath and how to find that in firebug?

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[Murali K]

Ambika,

Xpath doesn't need to start with the first tag which is Html. 

In general, every element has a unique id, you can start writing xpath pointing to that ID.

If any element doesn't have the ID, then write xpath pointing to the nearest element which has the ID.

Also do explore how to use css, which will be much faster than xpath.

Thanks

Murali

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Ambika Rajagopalan <amb...@gmail.com> wrote:

in Firebug I am able to find absolute xpath which starts from //html.. which is not healthy to use in general. Is there any other xpath and how to find that in firebug?

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[Deepanshu Kaushik]

You can use xpath finder, which is available as an add-on for firefox.

[Mike]

Unfortunately xpath finder does not support Firefox 5. The other two
mentioned here support 5 and higher though.

Mike

On Aug 16, 8:20 am, Deepanshu Kaushik <deepanshukaush...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Paul Hammant]

XPathChecker (by Brian Slesinsky) is good too.