How we can select the second last checkbox and third last checkbox.

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We can use last()- function to indentify the last object among all similar objects.

Below code will check or uncheck the second last checkbox and thrid last checkbox respectively.

selenium.click("xpath=(//input[@type='submit'])[last()-1]");

selenium.click("xpath=(//input[@type='submit'])[last()-2]");

Node Set : position()

If you want to select any object based on their position using xpath then you can use position() function in xpath.

You want to select second checkbox and forth checkbox then use below command

selenium.click("xpath=(//input[@type='checkbox'])[position()=2]");

selenium.click("xpath=(//input[@type='checkbox'])[position()=4]");

above code will select second and forth checkbox respectively.

String : starts-with()

Many web sites create dynamic element on their web pages where Ids of the elements gets generated dynamically.

Each time id gets generated differently. So to handle this situation we use some JavaScript functions.

XPath: //button[starts-with(@id, 'continue-')] 

Sometimes an element gets identfied by a value that could be surrounded by other text, then contains function can be used.

To demonstrate, the element  can be located based on the ‘suggest’ class without having

to couple it with the ‘top’ and ‘business’ classes using the following

XPath: //input[contains(@class, 'suggest')].