Selenium WebDriver findElement By xpath not working for me

Question

I ve been through the xpath tutorials and checked many other posts  hence I m not sure what I m missing   I m simply trying to find the following element by xpath    lt input class  t-TextBox  type  email  test-id  test-username   gt    I ve tried many things  such as   element   findElement By xpath      test-id  test-username         The error is Expression is not a legal expression   I m using Firefox on MacBook  Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated

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You should add the tag name in the xpath  like   element   findElement By xpath    input  test-id  test-username

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element   findElement By xpath       test-id  test-username      element   findElement By xpath    input  test-id  test-username            - any tagname

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Just need to add   at the beginning of xpath and closing bracket at last   element   findElement By xpath       test-id  test-username

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You haven t specified what kind of html element you are trying to do an absolute xpath search on  In your case  it s the input element   Try this   element   findElement By xpath    input  class  t-TextBox  and  type  email  and  test-     id  test-username

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Correct Xpath syntax is like     tagname  value  name     So you should write something like this    findElement By xpath    input  test-id  test-username

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You missed the closing parenthesis  at the end   element   findElement By xpath      test-id  test-username

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your syntax is completely wrong    you need to give findelement to the driver  i e your code will be     WebDriver driver   new FirefoxDriver    WebeElement element    element   driver findElement By xpath      test-id  test-username            your xpath is       test-id  test-username        i suggest try this        test-id  test-username

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You can use contains too    element   findElement By xpath    input contains   test-id  test-username

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