XPath Practice: Mastering XPath Expressions for Effective Web Automation using Starts-With() Function

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HTML Source document

<h1>Heading 1 </h1>
<h2>Heading 2 </h2>
<h3>Heading 3 </h3>
<h4>Heading 4 </h4>
<h5>Heading 5 </h5>
<h6>Heading 6 </h6>

<ul>
<li>Coffee</li>
<li>Tea</li>
<li>Milk</li>
</ul>

XPath Exercise 4

Q1. Find All List Items

Q2. Find Coffee Item

Q3. Find Tea Item

Q4. Find Milk Item

Q5. Find All Headers using starts-with() method

Q5. Find Coffee using starts-with() method

Q5. Find Tea using starts-with() method

Q5. Find Milk using starts-with() method

XPath O/P

Enter XPath Input here:

XPath Tips and Syntax For This Page Exercise :

Using starts-with()

//HTMLtag[starts-with(@attribute_name,'attribute_value')]
or
//*[starts-with(@attribute_name,'attribute_value')]

Example:
// Navigate to a website
driver.get("https://www.example.com");
// Select all elements whose class attribute starts with "example-"
List elements = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//*[starts-with(@class, 'example-')]"));

Using Double Slash

Syntax : //tagname

Where tagname is the name of the HTML element you want to search for.

Here are a few examples to demonstrate how to use the double slash in XPath:

e.g :
1) //p
2) //ul/li

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