Select Element Using XPath Syntax on Selenium for Python

We can select elements using xpath with Selenium webdriver. Xpath is one of the most important locators. There are two types of xpath. They are known as absolute [starting from parent node in DOM] and relative xpath [starting from anywhere in DOM].

The xpath syntax is − //tagname[@attribute='value'] or //*[@attribute='value'].

Let us consider the html code of an element that we shall identify with the help of xpath−

The xpath expression is //input[@name='firstname'] or //*[@name='firstname'].

Example

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\chromedriver.exe")
driver.implicitly_wait(0.5)
driver.get("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/selenium/selenium_automation_practice.htm")
// identify element with xpath
l = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='firstname']")
l.send_keys("Python")
driver.quit()

Output