I am trying to get the XPath for "workbasket_598F".However when I giving it //div[contains(text(),'Workbasket Name')]//following::tr[1]/td[1]//div/script it's not detecting the text, it's detecting the
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You can get that string with //div[#class="oflowDivM "]/text(), which basically will return the text - located inside <div class="oflowDivM "> - that is not wrapped in any tags.
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I have the below dom structure:
<h3 class="popover-title">
<div class="popup-title">
<div class="title-txt">Associated Elements  (5)</div>
</div>
</h3>
I am trying to write an xpath which will identify the title "Associated Elements" under h3 tag.
When my xpath is
//div[contains(#class, popover)]//h3[contains(.,'Associated Elements')]
the element is identified.
However when my xpath is
//div[contains(#class, popover)]//h3[contains(text(),'Associated Elements')]
the element is not identified.
As per my understanding the dot(.) is a replacement for text(), but then why does it not identify the element when I use the text() function.
However, for another dom structure:
<h3 class="popover-title">
<a class="btn-popover" href="#">x</a>
"Associated Elements"
</h3>
The xpath :
//div[contains(#class, popover)]//h3[contains(text(),'Associated Elements')]
&
//div[contains(#class, popover)]//h3[contains(.,'Associated Elements')]
works fine.
Can someone please explain the behaviour of dot(.) under both these scenarios?
Is there a better way to write an xpath that holds good for both the exmaples? Please suggest.
As selenium is tagged so this answer would be based on xpath-1.0 and the associated XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0 specifications.
contains(string, string)
The function boolean contains(string, string) returns true if the first argument string contains the second argument string, and otherwise returns false. As an example:
//h3[contains(.,'Associated Elements')]
Text Nodes
Character data is grouped into text nodes. As much character data as possible is grouped into each text node. The string-value of a text node is the character data. A text node always has at least one character of data. In the below example, text() selects all text node children of the context node:
//h3[text()='Associated Elements']
In your usecase, within the HTML the text Associated Elements  (5) have which is alternatively referred to as a fixed space or hard space, NBSP (non-breaking space) used in programming to create a space in a line that cannot be broken by word wrap. Within HTML, allows you to create multiple spaces that are visible on a web page and not only in the source code.
Analyzing your code trials
Your first code trial with:
//h3[contains(.,'Associated Elements')]
locates the element as it successfully identifies with partial text Associated Elements
Your second code trial with:
//h3[contains(text(),'Associated Elements')]
fails as the element contains some more characters e.g. in addition to the text Associated Elements.
Reference
You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:
How to locate the button element using Selenium through Python
What does contains(., 'some text') refers to within xpath used in Selenium
While fetching all links,Ignore logout link from the loop and continue navigation in selenium java
The text() in contains(text(),'Associated Elements') is a selector that matches all of the text nodes that are children of the context node - it returns a node-set. That node-set is converted to string and passed to the contains() function.
text() isn't a function but a node test. It is used to select all text-node children of the context node. So, if the context node is an element named x, then text() selects all text-node children of x.
When you use contains(., 'Associated Elements') only an individual text node is passed to the function and it is able to uniquely match the text.
Note: copied and edited from this and this post.
The page contains a multi-select dropdown (similar to the one below)
The html code looks like the below:
<div class="button-and-dropdown-div>
<button class="Multi-Select-Button">multi-select button</button>
<div class="dropdown-containing-options>
<label class="dropdown-item">
<input class="checkbox">
"
Name
"
</label>
<label class="dropdown-item">
<input class="checkbox">
"
Address
"
</label>
</div>
After testing in firefox developer tools, I was finally able to figure out the xPath needed in order to get the text for a certain label ...
The below XPath statement will return the the text "Phone"
$x("(//label[#class='dropdown-item'])[4]/text()[2]")
The label contains multiple text items (although it looks like there is just one text object when looking at the UI) in the label element. There are actually two text elements within each label element. The first is always empty, the second contains the actual text (as shown in the below image when observing the element through the Firefox developer tool's console window):
Question:
How do I modify the XPath shown above in order to use in Selenium's FindElement?
Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("?"));
I know how to use the contains tool, but apparently not with more complex XPath statements. I was pretty sure one of the below would work but they did not (develop tool complain of a syntax error):
$x("(//label[#class='dropdown-item' and text()[2][contains(., 'Name')]]")
$x("(//label[#class='dropdown-item' and contains(text()[2], 'Name')]")
I am using the 'contains' in order to avoid white-space conflicts.
Additional for learning purposes (good for XPath debugging):
just in case anyone comes across this who is new to XPath, I wanted to show what the data structure of these label objects looked like. You can explore the data structure of objects within your webpage by using the Firefox Console window within the developer tools (F12). As you can see, the label element contains three sub-items; text which is empty, then the inpput checkbox, then some more text which has the actual text in it (not ideal). In the picture below, you can see the part of the webpage that corresponds to the label data structure.
If you are looking to find the element that contains "Name" given the HTML above, you can use
//label[#class='dropdown-item'][contains(.,'Name')]
So finally got it to work. The Firefox developer environment was correct when it stated there was a syntax problem with the XPath strings.
The following XPath string finally returned the desired result:
$x("//label[#class='dropdown-item' and contains(text()[2], 'Name')]")
I have the following HTML. I need to get the XPath using DOWN as a keyword.
<span>
"DEVICE: some random values that I'm not bothered about"
<span class="c-emoji_plain_text">:sensor_1000_4_1:</span>
"/interfaces/:/interfaces/:mib2d], TRIGGER: interface_status, MESSAGE:
$interface_name is DOWN"
</span>
The problem I'm facing here is, when I use the following XPath, it's not recognized:
//span[contains(text(),'DOWN')]
I see that the text above child span is used but not the text below it.
Kindly help.
Try to replace
//span[contains(text(),'DOWN')]
with
//span[contains(.,'DOWN')]
to select required span node
Note that such selector can match several elements. To make it more specific you can use
//span[span and contains(.,'DOWN')]
This will match span that contains span child node as well as "DOWN" substring
Also
//span[contains(text()[2],'DOWN')]
should do the trick
I am trying to retrieve the text embedded inside the div tag. Partial html code is given below. I consulted the other existing answers, but the tag is located successfully but the text is coming back as empty string.My purpose is to retrieve the string between the 'div' tag as "You entered an invalid username or password, please try again."
I used the xpath
//div[#class='login-card js-login-card']/div[#role='alert']/div[2]
I used the css
.alert__heading.js-alert--error-text
This only getting back the tag name as div, but the text as an empty string.
Any ideas or corrections?
<div class="login-card js-login-card">
<div class="login-page__alert alert alert--error tt js-alert--error" role="alert">
<div class="alert__icon">
<div class="alert__heading js-alert--error-text">You entered an invalid username or password, please try again. </div>
</div>
<div id="cmePageWrapper" class="page-wrapper page-wrapper--card"> </div>
Try following xpath, as the required div tag is child node of div with class 'alert__icon':
//div[#class='login-card js-login-card']/div[#role='alert']/div[1]/div
Let me know, if it works for you.
Maybe you wanna try this
div[class*="error-text"]
If it didn't work try to get text by executing javascript code using this
$$( "div[class*="error-text"]" ).text() OR .val()/.html()
Good luck !
You could use contains with xpath, something like //div[contains(#class, 'error-text' ) ], using findelement will retrieve first element match the criteria. If it still returns empty, it means that the page might have more than one element which match the criteria
I have html like the below
<label id ="someid">
some text in label <span> count(10) </span></label>
I need to get text inside the label.
If I use driver.find_element_by_id('someid').text();
I will get as some text in label count(10)
But I don't want to get count(10).
Is there any way to write the path to get exact text available in label, not elements inside label
This XPath will get first text node under label element :
//label[#id ='someid']/text()[1]
Given sample xml in this question, above XPath will return :
some text in label