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XPath

XPath Selectors

Misc selectors

Xpath CSS
//h1[not(@id)] h1:not([id])
//button[text()="Submit"] Text match
//button[contains(text(),"Go")] Text contains (substring)
//product[@price > 2.50] Arithmetic
//ul[*] Has children
//ul[li] Has children (specific)
//a[@name or @href] Or logic
//a | //div Union (joins results)

jQuery

Xpath CSS
//ul/li/.. $('ul > li').parent()
//li/ancestor-or-self::section $('li').closest('section')
//a/@href $('a').attr('href')
//span/text() $('span').text()

Siblings

Xpath CSS
//h1/following-sibling::ul h1 ~ ul
//h1/following-sibling::ul[1] h1 + ul
//h1/following-sibling::[@id="id"] h1 ~ #id

Attribute selectors

Xpath CSS
//*[@id="id"] #id
//*[@class="class"] .class
//input[@type="submit"] input[type="submit"]
//a[@id="abc"][@for="xyz"] a#abc[for="xyz"]
//a[@rel] a[rel]
//a[starts-with(@href, '/')] a[href^='/']
//a[ends-with(@href, '.pdf')] a[href$='pdf']
//a[contains(@href, '://')] a[href*='://']
//a[contains(@rel, 'help')] a[rel~='help']

Order selectors

Xpath CSS
//ul/li[1] ul > li:first-child
//ul/li[2] ul > li:nth-child(2)
//ul/li[last()] ul > li:last-child
//li[@id="id"][1] li#id:first-child
//a[1] a:first-child
//a[last()] a:last-child

Descendant selectors

Xpath CSS
//h1 h1
//div//p div p
//ul/li ul > li
//ul/li/a ul > li > a
//div/* div > *
/ :root
/html/body :root > body

Getting started

$x('/html/body')
$x('//h1')
$x('//h1')[0].innerText
$x('//a[text()="XPath"]')[0].click()
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