Selenium WebDriver findElement(By.xpath()) not working for me

Question

I\'ve been through the xpath tutorials and checked many other posts, hence I\'m not sure what I\'m missing. I\'m simply trying to find the following element by xpath:

Answer 1

You haven't specified what kind of html element you are trying to do an absolute xpath search on. In your case, it's the input element.

Try this:

element = findElement(By.xpath("//input[@class='t-TextBox' and @type='email' and @test-    
id='test-username']");

Answer 2

Correct Xpath syntax is like:

//tagname[@value='name']

So you should write something like this:

findElement(By.xpath("//input[@test-id='test-username']"));

Answer 3

your syntax is completely wrong....you need to give findelement to the driver

i.e your code will be :

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
WebeElement element ;

element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//[@test-id='test-username']"); 

// your xpath is: "//[@test-id='test-username']"

i suggest try this :"//*[@test-id='test-username']"

Answer 4

You should add the tag name in the xpath, like:

element = findElement(By.xpath("//input[@test-id='test-username']");

Answer 5

You missed the closing parenthesis at the end:

element = findElement(By.xpath("//[@test-id='test-username']"));

Answer 6

element = findElement(By.xpath("//*[@test-id='test-username']");
element = findElement(By.xpath("//input[@test-id='test-username']");

(*) - any tagname