How to handle dynamically change xpath in selenium webdriver?

handle dynamically change xpath in selenium webdriver?

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Permalink Reply by Anand Singh on January 23, 2018 at 4:50pm

Hi Madhavi,

If I am getting you right, then, with "Dynamically change xpath", you mean to say that the 'ID' or any other attribute of a web-element changes dynamically in your application.

This is a very common issue faced by an engineer providing test automation services.

You can handle this by any of the following methods:

1. You can use absolute xpath where you need not to give any attribute name In xpath:

e.g.
//html/body/div[3]/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[4]/div[1]/div/div/div[1]/form[1]/input[1]

2. You can use starts-with function. In this method, you can give that part of web-element ID, which remains same every time.

e.g. //div[starts-with(@id,'post-body-')]/div[4]/form[1]/input[1]

3. You can use 'contains' function:

e.g. //div[contains(@id,'post-body-')]/div[1]/form[1]/input[1]

Hope this helps.

Thanks
Anand