Is it possible to locate element by partial id match in Selenium - selenium

Question

I am trying to locate elements with generated ids wherein some part of the ID is known; for example:
id="page_x002e_x0023_default-create-firstname"
in which the last 3 words (_default-create-firstname) are known but anything preceding that is subject to change.
Is this possible?

Answer 1

You can apply an ends-with CSS selector:
By.cssSelector("[id$=default-create-firstname]")
Update
Some time went by since the answer was posted. Here some update from the linked mozilla developer page and comments below:
New use By.css instead of By.cssSelector
By.css("[id$=default-create-firstname]")
Also see the four possibilities of
beginning with
anywhere inside
anywhere inside regardless capitalization
end with
/* Internal links, beginning with "#" */
a[href^="#"] {
background-color: gold;
}
/* Links with "example" anywhere in the URL */
a[href*="example"] {
background-color: silver;
}
/* Links with "insensitive" anywhere in the URL,
regardless of capitalization */
a[href*="insensitive" i] {
color: cyan;
}
/* Links that end in ".org" */
a[href$=".org"] {
color: red;
}

Answer 2

If you want to go down the xpath route then you could use contains(), like this:
//*[contains(#id,'_default-create-firstname')]
This will search the entire page for an id that contains the text "_default-create-firstname". It can be easily made more specific

Answer 3

You can try out this in Java-Selenium: you can use either ends-with() or contains(). I think Both should work.
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[ends-with(#id,'_default-create-firstname')]"));
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(#id, '_default-create-firstname')]"));

Answer 4

This works with selenium vba
.FindElementsByXPath( "//*[contains(#class, 'unique-string')]" )

Answer 5

Work one
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(#id, 'jobs-search-box-keyword-id')]")
Not work ones, all got the same error, TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
1. driver.find_element(By.XPATH("//*[contains(#id, 'jobs-search-box-keyword-id')]")).text
2. driver.find_element(By.XPATH("//*[contains(#id, 'jobs-search-box-keyword-id')]").text).text
3. driver.find_element(By.XPATH("//*[contains(#id, 'jobs-search-box-keyword-id')]")).get_attribute("innerHTML")
4. driver.find_element(By.XPATH("//*[contains(#id, 'jobs-search-box-keyword-id')]").get_attribute("innerHTML")).get_attribute("innerHTML")
I use python 3.7.6, selenium 3.141.0

Answer 6

I use: a[id*='example']
when my ID is something like example_12