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Reputation: 1

Difference between css path and css selector in selenium webdriver firefox

Problem is I want to locate many elements which share same css path but when I use

elements= webdriver.find_elements_by_css_selector("")

This only works if I open inspect element.

However when running the code without opening inspect element I got elements=[ ]

"nothing found"

I use css path because it's the only Mutual thing between the elements I want to locate.

CSS Path

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1056

Answers (1)

Infern0
Infern0

Reputation: 2814

as i have tested, the css path is the "full" path trough the DOM tree to the element you wish to locate. Starting from html tag to (n) item.

That include each element in the tree until you reach the focused element. Example:

html.wf-nunitosans-n4-active.wf-active body#gsr.hp.vasq.big div#viewport.ctr-p div#searchform.jhp.big form#tsf.tsf.nj div div.A8SBwf div.FPdoLc.tfB0Bf center input.gNO89b

CSS selector is the shortest path using css locators and axes to the focused item.

Example:

.FPdoLc > center:nth-child(1) > input:nth-child(1)

Hope this helps you.

Upvotes: 2

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