Overview

In this tutorial, we will learn about Absolute and Relative XPath Expressions. These are the mechanisms to identify the element in the document.

XPath is a query language to identify elements in the documents. Types of XPath expressions are:

• Absolute XPath Expression
• Relative XPath Expression

Absolute XPath

An absolute XPath is the complete path from the root node of the document. The absolute path starts with ‘/’

For Example:

/html/body/div/input

Relative XPath

The relative XPath starts with the ‘//’ and search for the element relative from the current node.

For Example:

//input