WebDriver uses XPath to identify a WebElement on the web page. Before we see how it does that, let's quickly look at the syntax for XPath. XPath is a short name for the XML path, the query language used for searching XML documents. The HTML for our web page is also one form of the XML document. So, in order to identify an element on an HTML page, we need to use a specific XPath syntax:
- The root element is identified as //.
- To identify all the div elements, the syntax will be //div.
- To identify the link tags that are within the div element, the syntax will be //div/a.
- To identify all the elements with a tag, we use *. The syntax will be //div/*.
- To identify all the div elements that are at three levels down from the ...
