92. not() function in XPath Expressions (Selenium Java 2026)

Published: 18 May 2026
on channel: QAFox

not() XPath Function

not() is used to select elements that do NOT match a condition.

Practical Demonstration:

Locate the paragraph which doesn't have a specific id
//p[not(@id='para1')]
Locate the paragraph which doesn't have specific text
//p[not(text()='Another paragraph of text')]
Locate the paragraph which doesn't contain certain text
//p[not(contains(text(),'Another'))]
Locate the checkbox fields which are not selected
//input[@type='checkbox'][not(@checked)]
Locate the text fields which are not disabled
//input[@type='text'][not(@disabled)]

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