I have the following HTML structure
<div class="carousel">
<ul class ="carousel-view">
<li>
<figure>
<a id="one"/>
</figure>
</li>
<li>
<figure>
<a id="two"/>
</figure>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
How do I use XPath to access the first a element? Notice there are multiple a elements inside the list.
Any of these XPath expressions will select the first a element:
(//a)[1] selects first a in the whole document.(/div/ul/li/figure/a)[1] selects first a with shown heritage.(//div[@class='carousel']/ul/li/figure/a)[1] restricts heritage.(//div[@class='carousel']//a)[1] abstracts away some heritage.Choose depending upon the context of your shown XML in your actual document and whether you wish to restrict the a elements to only those under certain other elements.
Note that //a[1] actually selects multiple a elements:
<a id="one"/>
<a id="two"/>
because //a[1] means select the a elements that are the first child of its parent.
You must use parentheses (//a)[1] to select
<a id="one"/>
alone as the first a in the document.
try this xpath :-
(//li/descendant::a)[1]
