Facing problems while trying to find XPath in Selenium? Here’re 10 of the best Chrome extensions for you to make it easier to find XPath in Selenium.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. Are you facing problems while trying to find XPath in Selenium? Well, you are not alone! This is among the most common challenges most developers face while using Selenium for web testing. But not anymore, as we have picked 10 of the best Chrome extensions to make it easier for you to find XPath in Selenium. Before we begin, we think it’s a good idea to point out what XPath in Selenium is. XPath is one of the most popular ways to find locations of WebElement in Selenium. With XPath expressions, you can find objects that are highly dynamic and fragile. Whenever you want to perform automation testing of any web applications, the first thing that you should do is identify the WebElements and the actions to be performed on them. In case you are wondering how to use XPath in Selenium, we have got you covered! Find our blog on the complete guide for using XPath in Selenium with examples. Selenium provides eight different locators to identify the WebElement on the web page. They are as follows: Id, name, className, linkText, partialLinkText, tagName, xpath, and cssSelector. However, it could be challenging for the developers to find XPath of WebElements in Selenium while performing cross browser testing. For example, the element might not have any id, name, or className. In such cases, you could use XPath or CSS selector to locate the WebElement. With Chrome extensions, you can ease this process of finding XPath of web elements. The following blog will take you through ten Chrome extensions to find Xpath in Selenium. To start with, let’s see some of the benefits of using XPath. Using a locator to locate an element on the webpage depends on the complexity of DOM (Document Object Model). Given below are five advantages of using XPath in Selenium as the locator to capture an element in the webpage: The most common and popularly used Chrome extensions for finding the XPath of WebElements are discussed below (in no particular order). SelectorsHub is a Chrome extension that helps in finding the XPath very easily. It provides a unique relative XPath. SelectorsHub supports shadow DOM, iframe, frame, and SVG elements, allowing us to write our XPath and subsequently verify it. How to download and add the SelectorsHub plugin to Chrome? You can download the extension from their official website, the link to which has been provided here. After adding this plugin to your browser, restart the browser. Navigate to the webpage and enable the extension by clicking on the plugin. It is one of the simplest Chrome extensions to find XPath of a WebElement. You can easily add this extension to Chrome and start finding the XPaths. To download and add the XPath Helper wizard plugin to Chrome, you can click here. Once downloaded, it will be extremely convenient to get the XPath of any WebElement. Step 1: Click on the plugin which has been added to the Chrome browser and witness how the mouse pointer instantly turns into a cross symbol. Step 2: Move the desired WebElement for which the XPath has to be determined, and the element will be highlighted. Step 3: Click on the specific element, and the XPath of the corresponding element will appear on the bottom left side of the screen. Here’s the screenshot that has been captured for locating the XPath of the login button on the webpage: It is one of the simplest Chrome extensions to find XPath of a WebElement.
