Handle Dynamic Elements using XPath in Selenium

Handle Dynamic Elements using XPath in Selenium

In Selenium following XPath methods can be used to identify complex or dynamic elements in the web application:

1) contains:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(@class,'alert')]"));
System.out.println(element.getText());

2) starts-with:

WebElement element1 = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[starts-with(@class,'sufee-alert')]"));
System.out.println(element1.getText());

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@type='text' or @id='firstName']")).sendKeys("test1");

4) using and:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@type='text' and @id='firstName']")).sendKeys("test1");

5) using text():

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[text()=' Sign in']")).click();

6) using index:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("(//*[@id='gender'])[1]")).click();