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How to get full CSS selector path ?

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Posted on by zin45

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In Chrome or Firefox when I right click and choose to copy selector I get something like this:

div.col-lg-6:nth-child(1) > p:nth-child(23) > a:nth-child(1)

While in power automate the CSS selector start with html, body like this

html > body > div > div:eq(1) > div > div:eq(4) > div > div:eq(1) > div > div:eq(0) > p:eq(21)

How I get full CSS selector path from any browser that is compatible with power automate ?

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momlo 1,527 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Copy selector gives you the smallest of data allowing to identify the element.
So technically, this is usually what will allow PAD to identify the element too if you use it instead of a selector identified by PAD.
So this is not the PAD's selector is better. It simply does it a little differently.

If you want to copy the full selector using dev tools in the browser, then experiment with options other than "copy selector," such as copy Full XPath, but I'm not sure what you want to achieve.
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In extract data some time I need to modify the CSS selector here in advanced dialog but copy selector work fine as you said , thanks

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