Selenium WebDriver - Absolute and Relative Path Examples

Example Absolute and Relative Paths for Selenium WebDriver

import org.junit.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;


public class AbsoluteRelativePaths {

@Test
public void absolutePath() throws InterruptedException {

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "E:\\Selenium\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");
  WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
  driver.get("E:\\Selenium\\absolute.html");

  // Absolute Path starts from root path
  WebElement link1 = driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/li[@id='test']/a"));

  // Relative Path starts from current path
  WebElement link2 = driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='test']/a"));

  driver.quit();

}

}