Can't get nth node in Selenium

Question

I try to write xpath expressions so that my tests won\'t be broken by small design changes. So instead of the expressions that Selenium IDE generates, I write my own.

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Answer 1

Here's an issue:

//input[@name='question'][7]   

This expression doesn't work at all.

This is a FAQ.

[] has a higher priority than //.

The above expression selects every input element with @name = 'question', which is the 7th child of its parent -- and aparently the parents of input elements in the document that is not shown don't have so many input children.

Use (note the brackets):

(//input[@name='question'])[7]

This selects the 7th element input in the document that satisfies the conditions in the predicate.

Edit:

People, who know Selenium (Dave Hunt) suggest that the above expression is written in Selenium as:

xpath=(//input[@name='question'])[7]