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WebdriverIO Version

9.18.4

Node.js Version

24

Mode

Standalone Mode

Which capabilities are you using?

What happened?

XPath chaining from the page objects files when specified in a method is not recognisable.
Ex: declare a locator get sampleLocator(){return $(‘//div/input’)}
Try chaining the same in a method using sibling like: cont actual = await this.sampleLocator.$(‘./following-sibling::div’)
waitfordisplayed(actual)
Seems like wdio9 unable to recognise the chained part when executed, but wdio7 has no issues and working absolutely fine.
So the workaround I have used is to add browser.execute

async randomFunction(title) {
return (await utils.getElementHtmlText(await this.randomMethod(title).$('./following-sibling::div[contains(@Class,"fakeLocator")]'))).replace(/\n/g, " ");
}

This above method execution will fail, as the './following-sibling::div[contains(@Class,"fakeLocator")]' is not displayed error will come

What is your expected behavior?

No response

How to reproduce the bug.

Create chaining xpath from methods in page object file using wdio9

Relevant log output

Element not displayed

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