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Currently this command is limited to node arrays. See [http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=18 issue 18] for supporting other [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XPathResult results] to be printed. | Currently this command is limited to node arrays. See [http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=18 issue 18] for supporting other [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XPathResult results] to be printed. | ||
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| + | == Syntax == | ||
| + | <source lang="javascript"> | ||
| + | $x(xpath) | ||
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== Parameters == | == Parameters == | ||
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== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Introduction_to_using_XPath_in_JavaScript Introduction to using XPath in JavaScript] | * [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Introduction_to_using_XPath_in_JavaScript Introduction to using XPath in JavaScript] | ||
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Revision as of 10:46, 5 July 2012
This command returns an array of HTML or XML elements matching the given XPath expression. This means it is actually a shortcut for document.evaluate().
Currently this command is limited to node arrays. See issue 18 for supporting other results to be printed.
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Syntax
$x(xpath)
Parameters
xpath
XPath expression used to match the elements to return. This follows the syntax of document.evaluate(). (required)
Examples
$x("//p")
This returns all <p>s of a page.
$x("//input[@type='checkbox']")
This returns all checkboxes of a page.
$x("//p/b[1]/text()")
This returns all text nodes within every first <b> of all <p>s of a page.
