Selenium - Xpath Locators

1. By Tagname

 //tagname[@attribute='value'] 

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@placeholder='Name']")) 

2. By index of the attribute 

 //tagname[@attribute='value'][index] 

 driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@type='text'][2]")) 

Used when your attribute and the value are same for multiple elements 

3. By tagnames when there are many instances of the childtag. 

 //parenttag/childtag[index]) 

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//form/input[3]")) 

Use index when there are many instances of child tag and you have to locate one of them.) 

 4. By parent to child-tag 

//parenttag[@attribute='value']/childtag[index]) 

driver.findElement(By.xpath(" //div[@class='forgot-pwd-btn-conainer']/button[1]")) 

 5. With regular expression 

 //tagname[contains(@class,'value')] driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[contains(@class,'submit')]"))