Instead we look around for something more permanent. We cannot use the text of the link or the href itself since they change on a news site. You should see something like the screenshot below.Ģ. Lets pretend we want to craft an XPath for the first headline link on my favorite chess website Chessbase.ġ.Visit the url, right click on the top headline and choose to inspect element with Firegbug. Steps to craft your XPath using Firebug 2.0 (This can be changed as per your preferences) By default the firebug console will appear at the bottom.

Activate the firebug console by clicking the firebug icon. The firebug icon will appear on the right corner on the tool bar.ģ. Download and install the latest firebug add-on from here. Firefox 29.1 did not list Firebug 2.0 as an available add on.Ģ. We used version 30.0 of Firefox for this post. Install/Upgrade-to the latest firefox browser from here. In case you missed it, here is how you use this super-cool feature. I was pleasantly surprised to find a cool feature that I think testers will find useful – the ability to check XPATHs within Firebug. I recently upgraded my Firebug to version 2.0.

In the time before every browser had decent developer tools, Firebug was a revolutionary add-on that allowed many testers, like myself, tools to interact, learn and explore what web applications were doing. Firebug has been my favorite Firefox add-on for a long time now.

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