Locators, XPath Expressions, CSS Selectors and Locator Tools

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: HTML Basics for Locators

Lecture 1: What is HTML?

Lecture 2: HTML Tags, Attribute Names and Values, Enclosed Text and HTML Elements

Lecture 3: Structure of HTML

Lecture 4: Adding Title to the HTML Web Page

Lecture 5: Adding Paragraphs to the HTML Web Page

Lecture 6: Adding Bold, Italic and Underlined text to the HTML Web Page

Lecture 7: Adding different sizes of headings

Lecture 8: Adding hyperlinks to the web page

Lecture 9: Adding Rulers to the Web Page

Lecture 10: Adding Images to the Web Page

Lecture 11: Adding Line Breaks to the Web Page

Lecture 12: Adding Table to the Web Page

Chapter 2: Locator Concepts and Types

Lecture 1: What are Locators?

Lecture 2: Different Types of Locators

Lecture 3: Demonstrating ID locator

Lecture 4: Demonstrating Name locator

Lecture 5: Demonstrating Class Name locator

Lecture 6: Demonstrating Link Text locator

Lecture 7: Demonstrating CSS Selector locator

Lecture 8: Demonstrating XPath locator

Lecture 9: Demonstrating DOM locator

Lecture 10: Priority of Locators

Lecture 11: Additional details about different Locators

Chapter 3: XPath Expressions

Lecture 1: What is an XPath?

Lecture 2: Hierarchy of HTML Source Code

Lecture 3: Types of XPath Expressions

Lecture 4: Building Absolute XPath Expressions

Lecture 5: Advantages and Disadvantages of Absolute XPath Expressions

Lecture 6: Relative XPath Expressions – First Set of Examples

Lecture 7: Relative XPath Expressions – Second Set of Examples

Lecture 8: Relative XPath Expressions – Third Set of Examples

Lecture 9: Relative XPath Expressions – Fourth Set of Examples

Lecture 10: Relative XPath Expressions – Fifth Set of Examples

Lecture 11: Relative XPath Expressions – Sixth Set of Examples

Lecture 12: Relative XPath Expressions – Seventh Set of Examples

Lecture 13: XPath Expressions – Wild Cards

Lecture 14: XPath Expressions – HTML Tables

Lecture 15: Different XPath Functions

Lecture 16: text() XPath Function

Lecture 17: contains() XPath Function

Lecture 18: starts-with() XPath Function

Lecture 19: last() XPath Function

Lecture 20: position() XPath Function

Lecture 21: Different XPath AXES

Lecture 22: following XPath AXES

Lecture 23: preceding XPath AXES

Lecture 24: following-sibling XPath AXES

Lecture 25: preceding-sibling XPath AXES

Lecture 26: parent XPath AXES

Lecture 27: child XPath AXES

Lecture 28: ancestor XPath AXES

Lecture 29: descendant XPath AXES

Lecture 30: Advantage of Relative XPath Expressions over Absolute XPath Expressions

Chapter 4: CSS Selectors

Lecture 1: What is a CSS Selector?

Lecture 2: Types of CSS Selectors

Lecture 3: Building Absolute CSS Selectors

Lecture 4: Advantages and Disadvantages of Absolute CSS Selectors

Lecture 5: Relative CSS Selectors – First Set of Examples

Lecture 6: Relative CSS Selectors – Second Set of Examples

Lecture 7: Relative CSS Selectors – Third Set of Examples

Lecture 8: first-child in CSS Selectors

Lecture 9: last-child in CSS Selectors

Lecture 10: nth-child in CSS Selectors

Lecture 11: Comma and Asterisk Symbols in CSS Selectors

Lecture 12: Starts With, Ends With and Contains Symbols in CSS Selectors

Lecture 13: Using not in CSS Selectors

Lecture 14: Using following sibling in CSS Selectors

Lecture 15: Locating disabled, enabled and selected UI elements using CSS Selectors

Lecture 16: XPath Expressions are powerful over CSS Selectors

Lecture 17: CSS Selectors have higher priority over XPath Expressions

Chapter 5: FireBug and FirePath Alternatives

Lecture 1: FireBug got deprecated and discontinued

Lecture 2: Use SelectorsHub in place of ChroPath

Lecture 3: SelectorsHub – The Best Alternative

Lecture 4: List of Alternatives

Lecture 5: ChroPath for Chrome Browser

Lecture 6: ChroPath for Firefox Browser

Lecture 7: ChroPath for Opeara Browser

Lecture 8: devtools-highlighter

Lecture 9: Try XPath

Lecture 10: Default Chrome Dev Tools

Lecture 11: XPath Finder

Lecture 12: XPath Helper

Lecture 13: Relative XPath Helper

Lecture 14: MRI

Lecture 15: True Path for Chrome

Lecture 16: True Path for Firefox

Lecture 17: Ranorex Selocity

Lecture 18: Default Firefox Dev Tools

Lecture 19: Chrome Console

Lecture 20: ChroPath is the best

Lecture 21: Learn Manual Creation of XPath Expressions and CSS Selectors