Which is preferred more in Selenium Absolute or Relative XPath

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

Apr 20, 2018 in Selenium by Martin
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  • 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

answered Apr 20, 2018 by Meci Matt
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