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

Just need to add * at the beginning of xpath and closing bracket at last.

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

Answer 2

You can use contains too:

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