selenium - best way to detect an element on a web page for seleniumRC in java

Question

What is the best way to detect an element on a webpage for automated testing using SeleniumRC using Java?. I know that there are XPath elements and CSS elements, but which one is best?

thanks! Nitin

Answer 1

X-Paths are accurate, indeed. However, they are also very fragile. Any change to the website that moves things around has the potential of breaking your tests. IDs are by far the least fragile, since it doesn't matter if your changes to a , your tests will always find it.