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Get the absolute XPath for a given Selenium WebElement
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// Taken from https://stackoverflow.com/a/47088726/3429133. | |
function getAbsoluteXPath(element) { | |
var comp, comps = []; | |
var parent = null; | |
var xpath = ''; | |
var getPos = function(element) { | |
var position = 1, | |
curNode; | |
if (element.nodeType == Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE) { | |
return null; | |
} | |
for (curNode = element.previousSibling; curNode; curNode = curNode.previousSibling) { | |
if (curNode.nodeName == element.nodeName) { | |
++position; | |
} | |
} | |
return position; | |
}; | |
if (element instanceof Document) { | |
return '/'; | |
} | |
for (; element && !(element instanceof Document); element = element.nodeType == Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE ? element.ownerElement : element.parentNode) { | |
comp = comps[comps.length] = {}; | |
switch (element.nodeType) { | |
case Node.TEXT_NODE: | |
comp.name = 'text()'; | |
break; | |
case Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE: | |
comp.name = '@' + element.nodeName; | |
break; | |
case Node.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE: | |
comp.name = 'processing-instruction()'; | |
break; | |
case Node.COMMENT_NODE: | |
comp.name = 'comment()'; | |
break; | |
case Node.ELEMENT_NODE: | |
comp.name = element.nodeName; | |
break; | |
} | |
comp.position = getPos(element); | |
} | |
for (var i = comps.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) { | |
comp = comps[i]; | |
xpath += '/' + comp.name.toLowerCase(); | |
if (comp.position !== null) { | |
xpath += '[' + comp.position + ']'; | |
} | |
} | |
return xpath; | |
} | |
return getAbsoluteXPath(arguments[0]); |
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