Selenium WebDriver findElement(By.xpath()) not wor

Question

I've been through the xpath tutorials and checked many other posts, hence I'm not sure what I'm missing. I'm simply trying to find the following element by xpath:

<input class="t-TextBox" type="email" test-id="test-username"/>

I've tried many things, such as:

element = findElement(By.xpath("//[@test-id='test-username']"));

The error is Expression is not a legal expression.

I'm using Firefox on MacBook

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Correct Xpath syntax is like:

//tagname[@value='name']

So you should write something like this:

findElement(By.xpath("//input[@test-id='test-username']"));

Answer 2

You should add the tag name in the xpath, like:

element = findElement(By.xpath("//input[@test-id='test-username']");

Answer 3

element = findElement(By.xpath("//*[@test-id='test-username']");
element = findElement(By.xpath("//input[@test-id='test-username']");

(*) - any tagname

Answer 4

You can use contains too:

element = findElement(By.xpath("//input[contains (@test-id,"test-username")]");

Answer 5

your syntax is completely wrong....you need to give findelement to the driver

i.e your code will be :

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
WebeElement element ;

element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//[@test-id='test-username']"); 

// your xpath is: "//[@test-id='test-username']"

i suggest try this :"//*[@test-id='test-username']"

Answer 6

You missed the closing parenthesis at the end:

element = findElement(By.xpath("//[@test-id='test-username']"));