I have the below xpath expression
//div[@class="post-content"]//img which runs on a html page, scanning for images. The above query returns a lot of images but I only want the second in the list.
I have tried these with no luck:
//div[@class="post-content"]//img[1] and //div[@class="post-content"]//img[position()=1] In XPath index starts from 1 position, therefore
//div[@class="post-content"]//img[2] should work correctly if you have to select each 2nd img in div[@class="post-content"].
If you want to select only 2nd img from all images that are in div[@class="post-content"], use:
(//div[@class="post-content"]//img)[2] 
indexes in XPath are 1-based, not 0-based. Try
(//div[@class="post-content"]//img)[position()=2] 
I have had this issue in the past the trick is understanding the index position.
so if you had a node like this
<div name="Something unique"> <div> ... <img/> </div> <div> ... <img/> </div> <img/> </div> <div> ... <img/> </div> <div> ... <img/> </div> </div> in this case the index goes after the first second node to indicate which node you need on the dom.
The valid xpath would be /div[@name="Something unique"]/div[3]//img
i hope this helps
