javascript - DOM find element by Xpath

Question

I'm new to DOM querying and I'm wondering if it is possible to query DOM elements directly by Xpath in a similar way to the below-mentioned code?

document.getElementById("searchInput");

Thanks!

Answer 1

The equivalent statement using only XPath would be

xPathResult = document.evaluate('//*[@id="searchInput"]', document);
if(xPathResult){
     element = xPathResult.iterateNext();
}

Have a look at the Intro to XPath in the browser on MDN for some more examples and usages.