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Chandrima
Chandrima

Reputation: 11

What does xpath="1" mean in HTML?

In my design code, the following is written. I cannot understand what xpath="1" means here.

<select class="search-category" id="ddlTemp" name="Template" xpath="1">
<option value="">Select</option>
<option value="a">a</option>
<option value="b">b</option>
</select>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1659

Answers (2)

user14779175
user14779175

Reputation:

XPath='1' is not the part of your HTML, it is being added through chropath plugin. You have copied this html with opened chropath tab. If you refresh the page and close the chropath tab, then you will not find xpath=1.

Upvotes: 0

kjhughes
kjhughes

Reputation: 111726

In General

There is no standard interpretation of xpath="1" in HTML because there is no standard xpath attribute on a select element (or any other HTML element). You've stumbled across some application's idiosyncratic markup; you'll have to consult the application's authors, documentation, or source code to learn the semantics of xpath="1".

Note further that the proper way to add an application or user specific attribute would have been to name it with a data- prefix: data-xpath.

Specific Application

There is an XPath utility, ChroPath, that runs as a browser extension and writes xpath (and css) attributes on elements. Credit: Randy Casburn answer to What is the significance of the attribute xpath="1" while constructing locators for Selenium tests

Upvotes: 2

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