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Andranik Chorokhyan
Andranik Chorokhyan

Reputation: 567

How to validate XPath using Firefox Web Developer Plugin?

Since Web Developer Plugin is an self-sufficient tool, ideally it should contain XPath checker/validator as FireBug did.

Actually I could not find it. I am not sure that it exists. But if it is, please anybody help to navigate to.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 24

Views: 27117

Answers (3)

aLaix
aLaix

Reputation: 71

Now it is possible to use xpath directly from the browser.

  1. Open Web Developer tools by pressing F12
  2. In the inspector there is a search bar at the top called Search HTML
  3. Enter your xpath there and type ENTER

Now the inspector should be pointing to the element that was the outcome of evaluating the xpath. For example after evaluating //div[@id="notify-container"] the inspector is pointing to that div

Upvotes: 5

Thach Hoang
Thach Hoang

Reputation: 56

I am using AutoPager extension on Firefox. It is quite handy for generate xpath and search xpath. you can refer to this post for more information: https://thachhoangautomation.wordpress.com/2017/10/11/generatesearch-cssselector-and-xpath-on-firefox-55-onward/

Upvotes: 0

Rod Molina
Rod Molina

Reputation: 617

In Firefox you can use the web developer tools console for xpath validation like this:

1.Open Web Developer tools.

2.Click on Console

3.Type $x("path")

This should let you validate that your path is valid.

References:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Web_Console/The_command_line_interpreter

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XPath

Upvotes: 41

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