XPath Practice: Mastering XPath Expressions for Effective Web Automation using Starts-With() Function
Test Your Skills with this Fun and Interactive Game
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:
Heading 1
Heading 2
Heading 3
Heading 4
Heading 5
Heading 6
- Coffee
- Tea
- Milk
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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