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

Do the following:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
elements = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, "Your_XPath")

This outputs a list of selenium.webdriver.firefox.webelement.FirefoxWebElements (in my Firefox browser).

Finally, find out the length of the list:

len(elements)

NB.: Please note that I have written find_elements() (plural) and NOT find_element(). Both of them are different. find_element() only returns the first matched web element, but to find the list of all the matched web elements, we have to use find_elements().