XPath contains text: Finding xPath for an element with text
I'm trying to use XPath to find an element containing text, but I am not able to get it.
Here is the code I am using:
WebElement searchItemByText = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='popover-search']/div/div/ul/li[1]/a/span[contains(text()='Some text')]"));
If I remove the last bit with the "contains" thing, it locates my span element, but I need to select it based on the text contents. It's not gonna be a perfect match of 'Some text' either because it might contain truncated strings as well.
plz tell me the issue
The problem you are facing is because:
[contains(text()='Some text')]To get rid of this error try to change it to the following:-
[text()[contains(.,'Some text')]]Here the outer [ ] are a conditional that operates on each individual node in that node you can set function text()as a selector that matches all of the text nodes that are children of the context node and it returns a node-set.
Whereas the inner [ ] is a conditional which operates on each node in that node-set.
The function contains() operates on a string. Here it is passed an individual text node (.).