While using automation tools like Selenium in order to find the elements on a web page we use locators. There are mainly 8 locators which are used in Selenium id name className tagName linkText partialLinkText cssSelector Xpath The most commonly used locators are cssSelectors and Xpath. In this tutorial we will learn the very basics of Xpath. By the end of this tutorial you should be able to understand basic Xpath syntaxes and write a few of them as well.