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XPath functions

XPath functions

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XPath functions

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Now, we can select elements using XPath with their tag name and attributes. But what if we want to select elements based on their text. Let's say we would like to select this heading 1 element. To do that, we can use the text function. So let's just go ahead and use the page locator. start with the tag name that in this case is h1 so let's go ahead and do that and start with two slashes because this is a relative path and then inside of square brackets we can define functions and the function we are going to use is the text function why is it a function because we are going to call it using parentheses like this. What it will do is just give us the text inside of this h1 element and then we can match it using a equal sign and the thing which we want to match which will be let's say heading one and now I can go ahead and highlight the same. You can see our heading is highlighted. And you will notice that this text function is a exact match with what we are doing here. Unlike the get by…

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