How to get relative xpaths in webdriver for multiple web elements? - xpath

Question

<a id="ctl00_cphBody_gvMessageList_ctl02_hlnkMessageSubject" href="Message.aspx?id=3428&member=">DDM IT QUIZ 2017 – Bhubaneswar Edition</a>
<a id="ctl00_cphBody_gvMessageList_ctl03_hlnkMessageSubject" href="Message.aspx?id=3427&member=">[Paybooks] Tax/investment declaration proof FY 2016-17</a>
<a id="ctl00_cphBody_gvMessageList_ctl04_hlnkMessageSubject" href="Message.aspx?id=3426&member=">Reimbursement clarification</a>
out:
DDM IT QUIZ 2017 – Bhubaneswar Edition
[Paybooks] Tax/investment declaration proof FY 2016-17
Reimbursement clarification
How can i get the relative xpaths for these three elements, so that I can get the above mentioned texts.

Answer 1

xpath = '//a/text()'
This will return a list of text

Answer 2

A complete answer would be:
to get all a elements of the same type, in this case having an id with ctl00
//a[contains(#id, 'ctl00')]
you can add more restriction, for example add a href restriction, to contain a certain string in his value
//a[contains(#id, 'ctl00')][contains(#href, 'Message')]
to get all a element is enough to just use
//a
In order to get text, you can use a method to get the text from your framework or add /text() to your xpath expression.

Answer 3

You can use the span class [relative xpath] like the following example along with the mouse operations and keyboard operations.
Check this out and let me know!
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;
public class SnapD {
public static void main(String args[]){
WebDriver d=new FirefoxDriver();
d.get("https://www.snapdeal.com/");
d.manage().window().maximize();
d.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
System.out.println("Hello Google...");
System.out.println("Hello Snapdeal...");
WebElement wb= d.findElement(By.xpath("//span[text()='Electronics']"));
Actions act=new Actions(d);
act.moveToElement(wb);
act.perform();
System.out.println("Mouse hovered");
WebElement wb1=d.findElement(By.xpath("//span[text()='DTH Services']"));
act.contextClick(wb1).perform();
act.sendKeys(Keys.ARROW_DOWN,Keys.ENTER).perform();
act.sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL,Keys.TAB)).perform();
}
}