Question

On my webpage I have two buttons, how to identify which one is which?

<button onclick="addToSelected('newApplicationForm');">Add Strategy</button>
<button onclick="submitAddNewApplication('newApplicationForm');">Submit</button>

Answer 1

You say it’s your webpage. Any chance you could put IDs to your elements? Would make it easier to identify them uniquely. If not, solution below.

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You could use this XPath expression:

//button[contains(@onclick,"addToSelected('newApplicationForm');")]

Which will identify it by the javascript call, or you could try:

//button[.='Add Strategy']
         ^
         |_ May need to be replaced by text()

Which will match the content.

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For the submit-button, you could try the same principle with identifying by javascript:

//button[contains(@onclick,"submitAddNewApplication('newApplicationForm');")]

or by content:

//button[.='Submit']

Note: Some languages seem to use text() instead of the dot . to refer to the actual text in an element.