Question

What is following-sibling in selenium

Answer 1

Here, ul has 8 children(8-li) on total.

 And, each li has 7 more siblings(i.e brothers/sisters). Now, suppose you want to identify the 4^th li where only first li can be identified uniquely. To identify the the 4^th li we can proceed as follows:

Identifying the 1^st li element, via the xpath

//li[@class='classroomlink hidden-xs hide']

if we want the identify the 4^th li then if we proceed by giving slash after it i.e

//li[@class='classroomlink hidden-xs hide']/

Then it will look for the elements inside the li. And so it is not possible to navigate to the 4^rd li.

Here we can make use of the following-sibling to identify our element by

//li[@class='classroomlink hidden-xs hide']/following-sibling::li[3]

Comments

Thank you so much... even basic level person can understand it.

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Can you share any example to demonstrate following-sibling?

Answer 2

Xpath=//*[@type='text']//following::input[2]