CSS selectors Vs XPath

CSS selectors come last when you ask the question on locators,

“What are all the locators you use frequently and why?”

CSS selectors perform well as they are natives to the browser (Front end developers use it to locate elements and apply styling rules).

Difference between CSS and XPath

** Performance of CSS is the same or faster compared to XPath

** CSS is easier to learn than XPath, easier to use.

** CSS Selector only allows unidirectional flow.

Using a CSS Selector, we can only traverse from parent to child but not from the child to parent, which is possible with XPath (Backward traversal possible in XPath).

Swaroop Nadella
Test Automation Engineer, Tech Educator

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