How to find a sibling of a node

How to find a sibling of a node

There are many situation when we get difficulties to find the elements which do not have identification/attribute but their immediate siblings has some identification.

In above example if we want to get the text of H1 we can not use //h1 because there are more than one h1 on the page. If you see a and h1 both are siblings and children of div//[@class='title pad_btm15']
By using a sibling element's property we can find out his sibling. In above example we know id of a which is "mainContent" then we can get its sibling

Xpath:

"//a[@id='mainContent']/following-sibling::h1"


If you have more siblings with no attribute or no unique attribute like below.

then we can use the position us find out exact element using xpath:
Xpath:
Samsung Android Mobile
"//a[@id='mainContent']/following-sibling::h1[1]"

Nokia Android Mobile :
"//a[@id='mainContent']/following-sibling::h1[2]"