XPath highlighting feature is critically needed to be able use FF browser for work
Categories
(DevTools :: Inspector, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: linuxaa, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0
Steps to reproduce:
I am a Selenium Web driver test automation developer. I critically need to create valid XPath for each UI object I am using for my tests. For this I need to have a tool, which allows me to enter XPath string in the field and corresponding object gets highlighted.
Actual results:
Somehow support of this feature was stopped awhile ago (on version of ~7 or something). Since then I am BLOCKED to use my favorite browser FF for test development. I got forced by that to switch Chrome browser, which allows to enter XPath string from dev console and highlighting matching UI object in browser.
Expected results:
Just add 1 field to development console, where I can enter XPath string and it will highlight corresponding UI object on the page. This will radically increase usage of FF browser in the development world.
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Updated•6 years ago
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Comment 1•6 years ago
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Closing this as a duplicate of Bug 963933.
For a workaround, you may use the $x() function in the console. When called with the XPath string, it will return an array of matched nodes. Hovering over the results highlights the nodes on the page. See comment: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=963933#c23
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