Xpath locator in Selenium IDE

X PATH LOCATOR:

Xpath is used to identify the element using any attribute or visible test.

Syntax for X PATH:-

//html tag [@attribute=’value’]

e.g. - //div [@class=’label’]

                   OR

//html tag [text () =’Visible Text’]

e.g.-//div [text () =’Tasks’]

For example, we are locating Gmail‘s email textbox with the help of x path.

• Open the Firefox browser.
• Click on the Selenium icon, and it will open the Selenium IDE interface.
• Click on the star recording button and enter the base URL is:

https://accounts.google.com/signin/v2/identifier?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F&service=mail&sacu=1&rip=1&flowName=GlifWebSignIn&flowEntry=ServiceLogin

• click on the command text box and write the first command as:-

Command: open

Target: https://accounts.google.com/signin/v2/identifier?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F&service=mail&sacu=1&rip=1&flowName=GlifWebSignIn&flowEntry=ServiceLogin

• This command loads the Gmail page on the Firefox browser. 
• Then go to the email text box and right-click over it to inspect the email text box.
• And do right click on the elements HTML code and then select the Copy XPath option.

• After that, right-click on insert new command.

• Write next command  and paste the copy x path  in target field:

Command: verify element present

Target: xpath=//*[@id="identifierId"]

• Click on the Stop recording button present at the top corner of the menu bar.
• And click on the Run Current Test button.
• It will execute all the inserted commands on the browser.
• The Log pane is displaying the overall summary of the executed test scripts.

• After that, click on the Find button to verify that the link is highlighted in the browser or not.
• And you can see the highlighted link in the Brower as well.