Find an element by text and get xpath - selenium webdriver junit

Question

I have a table with 9 rows and 6 columns in my webpage. I want to search for a text \"MakeGoodDisabled-Programwise_09_44_38_461(n)\" and get the xpath of the cell. I have us

Answer 1

The question which you asked does not make any sense to me. I guess there might be a strong reason for you to 'want to do it' !

Your line of code

 String xpath = driver.findElement(By.name(test)).getAttribute("xpath");

will not return anything because there is no attribute 'xpath' in html elements. Please get your basics clear on to what xpath means??

if i have an html element as shown below

i can get the values of attribute by using

driver.findElement(By.name("username").getAttribute("value");  // returns 'Name'

This will give me value of 'value' attribute

or

driver.findElement(By.name("username").getAttribute("readonly");  // returns 'readonly'

same as above !