I want to select all the tags with <td class='blob-code blob-code-addition'> and <td class='blob-code blob-code-deletion'> . So I am trying to include or condition here between the two predicates. It does not work. However, if I include only one of the two classes it works . What is the problem here? Something is wrong with the syntax.
By getChanges = By.xpath("//td[@class='blob-code blob-code-addition'] or //td[@class='blob-code blob-code-deletion']");
You want to specify that like the following:
//td[contains(@class,'deletion') or contains(@class,'addition')]
or
//td[contains(@class,'blob-code blob-code-addition') or contains(@class,'blob-code blob-code-deletion')]
If you want to do a tag independent search then you can simply use
//*[contains(@class,'blob-code blob-code-addition') or contains(@class,'blob-code blob-code-deletion')]
From your answer it looks like you are trying to concatenate two different xpaths
However, contians() is not mandatory here. You also can do without this
//*[(@class='blob-code blob-code-addition') or (@class='blob-code blob-code-deletion')]
//. I am using or as well. Please see my edit.what works for me is below expression using "|" character inside my expression-
By element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[@clas='xyz'] | //button[@clas='abc']"))
I used above expression for JAVA + Selenium + Maven project
using pom:
@FindBy(xpath ="//span[contains(@class,'vui-menuitem-label-text') and normalize-space(.) = 'Clone']")
To select all the tags with:
<td class="blob-code blob-code-addition"><td class="blob-code blob-code-deletion">You can use either of the following Locator Strategies:
Using xpath through class attribute with or clause:
//td[@class='blob-code blob-code-addition' or @class='blob-code blob-code-deletion']
Using xpath through single class attribute with or clause:
//td[contains(@class,'blob-code-addition') or contains(@class,'blob-code-deletion')]
Using xpath through partial class attribute with or clause:
//td[contains(@class,'addition') or contains(@class,'deletion')]
For writing Multiple Xpath in one element selenium
driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, '//div[@class="any-content"]//p|//h3|//figure')
You can write many tags by using "|" modulo.
