First steps with FirePath : What a useful tool

Continuing with the Automation project, WebDriver allows to interact with the DOM (Document Object Model) through XPath . Xpath provides a quite interesting approach to query the DOM, but sometimes it requires dedication and practice to fully understand how it works  and how the queries can be performed.

Since I need to interact with the DOM elements very often and WebDriver also provides a way to use XPath, then it is time to getting started using it.

I’ve been using Firebug for a while and I found a very interesting and helpful add-on called FirePath.

FirePath gives you the  XPath expression to locate the element, look for example how easy is to find an element in google :

Let’s suppose I would like to find the dive where the country is displayed, then the XPath expression would be

This is another approach to interact with XPath.

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