Basic To Advanced Selenium Java Full Course - Session 9 - Handling Dynamic Elements using XPath

Handling Dynamic Elements using XPath: Contains - Can be used when there is a pattern in attribute values It has the ability to find element with partial text OR/AND - Used to identify elements with multiple attributes Starts With - Matches the starting text of the attribute to find the element Text - Matches the exact text to find the element Index - Locates the element using index XPath Axes Methods: Following: Selects everything in the document after the closing tag of the current node Ancestor: Selects all ancestors (parent or grandparent) of the current node Child: Selects all children of the current node Preceding: Selects all nodes that appear before current node Following sibling: Selects all siblings after the current node Parent: Selects the parent of the current node Descendant: Select all descendants (children or grandchildren) of the current node Wait Methods: Implicit Wait: WebDriver waits for a certain duration of time until all the elements on the page are loaded Useful when certain elements on the webpage are not available immediately and need some time to load Explicit Wait: WebDriver will wait for a specific element on the page until the given condition is satisfied Useful if one of the element take longer time to load compared to other elements on the page Fluent Wait: It tells the WebDriver to wait for a condition, as well as the frequency with which to check the condition PageLoad Timeout: Sets the amount of time to wait for a page load to complete before throwing an error SetScript Timeout: Sets the amount of time to wait for an asynchronous script to finish execution before throwing an error Wait: Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being notified or interrupted