Handling Dynamic Xpath

Question

Am automating things using Selenium. Need your help to handle Dynamic Xpath as below:

Driver.findElement(By.xpath(\"//[@id=\'INQ_2985\']/div[2]/tr/td/div/div[3

Answer 1

you can try using contains() or starts-with() in xpath,

above xpath can be rewritten as follows,

Driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[starts-with(@id,'INQ')]/div[2]/tr/td/div/div[3]/div")).click();

if you can post more of your html, we can help improve your xpath..

• moreover using such long xpath's is not recommended, this may cause your test to fail more often

for example,if a "new table data or div" is added to the UI, above xpath will no longer be valid

• you should try and use id, class or other attributes to get closer to the element your trying to find
• i personally recommend using cssSelectors over xpath