Selenium C# Xpath

Why to use XPath?

XPath is an alternative if other attributes of the Control are visible.It is recommended that if attributes like ID,Name, Css are available those only should be used. Xpath should be last choice.

Gokul T6y ago

Hi @Arslan Afridi

Inthe previous version browses are need to xpath in seperately but the latest version of the browsers are not necessary to installed brwsers.

just enter the code for following method:

IWebElement email = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[contains(@id, 'email')]"));

IWebElement pass = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[contains(@id, 'pass')]"));

Santhosh7y ago

as i can see the screenshot attached,
You are trying to find a button with id 'loginbutton'.
You are passing Xpath of that button to By.Id.

I guess, you are confused. Directly pass button id .

By.Id("loginbutton")

xpath of the button is : //button[@id='logingbutton']

so use By.XPath('//button[@id='logingbutton']') as above.

By.Id is trying to find the control with id "//button[@id='logingbutton']".

But the id is 'logingbutton;.

i hope, you understand.