17. Professional Locators: Robust XPath, CSS & Axes Strategies

Locator Hierarchy (Reliability Order)

1. By.id("login-btn") - Fastest & unique 2. By.cssSelector("button[data-testid='submit']") - Fast & readable 3. By.xpath("//button[contains(text(), 'Submit')]") - Powerful text search 4. By.xpath("//td[text()='ORD-101']/following-sibling::td//button") - XPath axes

// XPath Axes:
// Find delete button for a specific table user:
By deleteBtn = By.xpath("//tr[td[contains(text(), 'Dhanu')]]//button[@aria-label='Delete']");