hover with XPath (can single quotes be used in XPath?)

[stevzie]

Can anyone explain why the following does not work:

hover //tr[contains(@id, 'user')]/td[1]/strong/a

I receive:
SyntaxError: Expected token ')'

The XPath statement works correctly in the Chrome console.

[kensoh]

Hey @stevzie try using double quotes -

hover //tr[contains(@id, "user")]/td[1]/strong/a

The flow samples and the tip under here - https://github.com/kelaberetiv/TagUI#steps-description mentions this but may be easy to miss.

The convention is chosen so that users can use single quotes to form dynamic XPaths with their variables, eg by user '+variable_name+' or `variable_name` in their element identifiers.

[kensoh]

Forgot to copy @Aussiroth who is now maintaining TagUI for AI Singapore -

[fez226]

hello @kensoh i had a problem with single quote but i finally have a solution... if anybody want to put a single quote on a string you need to put a back slash behind it. example:

var1 = single quote + \ + single quote + STRING + \ + single quote + single quote

type [element] as '+var1+'

so this write 'STRING' on the element input text

[kensoh]

cool stuff thanks @fez226 fo sharing! yes I normally recommend using double quotes to keep it syntactically correct but yes you can use \ to escape the single quote character in XPath string.

also, now TagUI supports backticks to denote variable, so your example step can be written as

type element_identifier as `var1`

[maheswarGR]

hover xpath not working : @kensoh

hover //*[@id="gatewayHistoryDetailsTab"]/div[1]/i[3]

[kensoh]

I saw the duplicated question here - #1171 (comment) and will reply there