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pkudrys
Contributor
2 years ago

xpath finds an incorrect object in TC, but the same xpath works fine in Chrome

Hi guys,   I'm experiencing an issue where given xpath finds an incorrect object in TC, but the same xpath works fine in Chrome. The xpath looks like this: //mat-sidenav[contains(@style,'visibili...
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rraghvani
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From what's mentioned here Finding Web Objects Using XPath Expressions, in Tips on Using XPath Expressions, "To search the entire web page for elements, put a double slash (//) at the beginning of the XPath expression".

 

Since you are searching for,

//input[@id=(//label[contains(.,'Key')]/@for)]

it will match the first item it finds.

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pkudrys
Contributor
2 years ago
Hi,

Thank you for the reply. Well, I was under the impression, that if a mapped element is a child of another mapped element, the xpath of searched element is a combination of parent and child element? So in this particular case, the child element should be searched in the sidenav panel, which is a parent element?