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

You haven't specified what kind of html element you are trying to do an absolute xpath search on. In your case, it's the input element.

Try this:

element = findElement(By.xpath("//input[@class='t-TextBox' and @type='email' and @test-    
id='test-username']");

Answer 2

Just need to add * at the beginning of xpath and closing bracket at last.

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