unfortunatly Xpath selectors are shaky and do no work for most of the test executions i’ve tried to run. Katalon could not find the objects. is there a way to change this default configuration for the test recordings?

Hi Mark, you can change the way to locate element by editing your element in Object Repository. Just uncheck xpath in object properties.

Hi Jan, Thanks for the quick response, I was trying to avoid that(editing your element in Object Repository) and instead change the default configuration of the Recording feature

Next release of Katalon Studio will have big improvement to this and you can use css as default capturing selector.

Hi Vinh, is this new version already out and if it is, how can I enable css default capturing?

Ralf Comtesse said: Hi Vinh, is this new version already out and if it is, how can I enable css default capturing? Hi there Unfortunately selecting CSS selector as a default selector will not be deployed in later releases. Currently you need to manually pass in your CSS selector in this case.

Hi any idea when the latest version be available with CSS Selector as a default selector? Many thanks

Chapel Kabir said: Hi any idea when the latest version be available with CSS Selector as a default selector? Many thanks Any idea any one?

Hello, any progress on this topic? Also we feel that this is one of the potential blockers.

Can we at least know reason why this feature was not implemented? Does this mean it will never be implemented? I mean adding CSS selector manually is not even close to having CSS selector as default recording strategy which would be extremely useful. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Can Katalon record Tests with CSS selectors rather than the default Xpath?

Feature Request

devalex88 January 18, 2019, 5:46pm 12

@ThanhTo Please track this request.

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Can Katalon record Tests with CSS selectors rather than the default Xpath?

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