Recent answers to why in the inspector can not copy a text element?https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/11745182017-09-06T09:45:19-07:00It doesn't make sense to get the path of some text.
You can only get the path of a specific tag and 2017-09-06T09:45:19-07:00cor-elhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1174518#answer-1004179<p>It doesn't make sense to get the path of some text.
You can only get the path of a specific tag and that should be the containing tag (i.e. the tag that contains this text: P element in first screenshot).
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I needed to know the xPath of the text element on the page (win10 x64, Firefox 52017-09-06T09:03:17-07:00Not_includedhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1174518#answer-1004172<p><em>Not_included <a href="#question-1174518" rel="nofollow">said</a></em>
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I needed to know the xPath of the text element on the page (win10 x64, Firefox 56.0b9(64bit)).
If you select a text element in the Page Inspector, then all copy options will be inactive.
Why is that?
Why can't get the link "../ text ()"? So does Chrome.
Why can not I copy a text element?
I wanted to copy xPath in Firefox(55) to Ubuntu, but there was not even an option to "copy xpath". Offensively.
Sorry for my bad english))
Thanks for the help))
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