Count the number of elements are matching with for the given xpath expression

Question

How to count the number of elements are matching with for the given xpath expression

xpath: driver.findElement(By.xpath(\"//div[contains(@id,\'richedittext_insta         


        

Answer 1

Not working in Selenium, which only allows to return nodes from XPath, not primitives like the number returned by count(...). Kept for reference and is valid for most other tools offering a more complete XPath API.

You should only return least possible amount of data from the query. count(//div[contains(@id,'richedittext_instance')]) counts the number of results within XPath and thus is faster as all the elements do not have to be passed from the XPath engine to Selenium.

I can't help you with how to fetch this as n int out of selenium, but this should be easy stuff.