Building XPaths

• To get the number of elements under a list or table. We can use below selenium method with appropriate logic.

Method:   selenium.getXpathCount(path).intValue();

Returns:   Integer

Path     :    some of xpath examples

1.       //form/ul[contains(@id,'pageList')]/li[contains(@id, 'step')]

2.       "//div/table/tbody/descendant::tr"   -- descendants of table (no of rows)

•  To retrieve an “attribute” value of any component:

Method:  selenium.getAttribute(path);

Returns:  String

Path:      xpath examples

1.       //form/ul[contains(@id,'pageList')]/li[contains(@id, 'step')]/@id

                                                ---   returns value of the list(li) attribute “id”

• Xpath for label or any other components

·         //table/tbody/tr[1"]/td[2]/label[@for='1']

·         /h3[contains(text(),'blackboard')]

·         //input[@name='top_Next']

·         //input[@id='submit']

• XPath for getting the values

for(int i=1;i<=3;i++)

{

        String val = selenium.getText("//dl[@id='problemList']/dt["+i+"]/label");

        System.out.println("val :"+val);

}

• XPath for Checking the  radio button

selenium.check("//dl[@id='problemList']/dt[2]/label/input");