Which is preferred more in Selenium Absolute or Relative XPath

Question

Which is preferred most in Selenium automation testing, Absolute XPath or Relative XPath

Answer 1

• Absolute XPath is the direct way to find an element on the Web Page.
• Characteristic of Absolute XPath is that it begins with a single forward slash(/) as shown in the syntax below:
• /html/bodr/div[1]/div[3]/div/div/div/div/div[2]/form/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/input[@id= 'email']

• In Relative XPath, the path does not start from the root of the HTML structure
• It starts with the double forward slash (//), which means it can search the element throughout the webpage
• There is no need to write long XPath as in Absolute XPath
• The syntax of relative XPath is:-

• //table[@role='presentation']/tbody/tr[2]/td/input[@id='email’]

Relative XPath is preferred more than Absolute XPath