Using an OR condition in Xpath to identify the same element

Question

I have this logic which gets the current page's title first clicks on next button, fetches the title again and if both the titles are the same, meaning navigation has not moved to the next page, it clicks on Next again.

However, my problem is that the title element's Xpath differs - the same title element has two Xpaths. One is some pages the other in some other pages.

It is either this,

(.//span[@class='g-title'])[2]

OR

.//span[@class='g-title']

So, how can I handle this?

Is there any specific reason for using xpath to find out the page title? Selenium Webdriver API has got a method to get the page title (like the one suggested in below answer for Java binding). Thanks. — Mukesh Takhtani, Dec 30 '15 at 07:12
if you are looking OR (|) operator in xpath, you can try like this "(.//span[@class='g-title'])[2]|.//span[@class='g-title']" . i hope this is what you are looking for. — murali selenium, Dec 30 '15 at 09:15

score 42 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 31 '17 at 11:36

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If the element has two xpath, then you can write two xpaths like below

xpath1 | xpath2

Eg: //input[@name="username"] | //input[@id="wm_login-username"]

It will choose any one xpath

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answered Aug 31 '17 at 10:29

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What is for "And" condition? – gomathi subramanian Sep 24 '19 at 09:30
this is nice because you can put two complete xpaths next to each other without worrying about another syntax. – whydoieven Oct 07 '20 at 07:32

score 7 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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You can use or operator like

(.//span[@class='g-title'])[2] or .//span[@class='g-title']

For more details : Two conditions using OR in XPATH

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answered Dec 30 '15 at 09:22

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score 5 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 02 '19 at 12:16

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You can use or, like below:

//tr[@class='alternateRow' or @class='itemRow']

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answered Jun 07 '18 at 06:05

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score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 18 '21 at 19:11

I had an interesting insight I had using this method. In my python code I was clicking a cart button and the or "|" ONLY works with separate xpath statements like so ...

WebDriverWait(webdriver,20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH,"//*[@class='buttoncount-1'] | //button[contains(text(), 'Add to Cart')]")))

or

btn = webdriver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@class='buttoncount-1'] | //button[contains(text(), 'Add to Cart')]")

I found that "or" ONLY works when they share the same bracket []

 WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//button[contains(text(), 'Add to Cart') or contains(text(),'Buy')]"))).click()

And since you're here. If you're curious about "and" statements this worked for me...

 WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//button[contains(text(), 'Continue To Order Rev')][@data-attr='continueToOrderReviewBtn']"))).click()

Simply pairing two separate statements was sufficient. No "and" necessary. Note: This was all in python. I do not know how this will transfer over to java. Hope this was somewhat useful. It took me a few migraines to narrow this down.

Using an OR condition in Xpath to identify the same element

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