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I am a beginner in learning Selenium WebDriver and XPath. I am trying to get the "<td>" Element of the Nested Table which Contains string '7-8-9.' Following is the HTML page code:

 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <head>
 <title>Sample</title>
 </head>
 <body>
 <table border = "2">
 <tbody>
 <tr>
 <td>one</td>
 <td>two</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>three</td>
 <td>
 <table border = 1">
 <tbody>
 <tr>
 <td>1-2-3</td>
 <td>4-5-6</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>7-8-9</td>
 <td>10-11-12</td>
 </tr>
 </tbody>
 </table>
 </td>
 </tr>
 </tbody>
 </table>
 </body>
 </html>

this the test code :

WebElement cell3 = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//table/tbody/tr[2]/td[2]/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[contains(text() , '1-2-3'))]"));
 System.out.println(cell3.getText());

Please help! thanks

asked Feb 9, 2015 at 14:32
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  • What issue do you getting?? Commented Feb 9, 2015 at 15:50
  • What is your test code returning? Commented Feb 10, 2015 at 12:01
  • @tester23 are you satisfied with saifur's answer? Commented Apr 17, 2015 at 17:22

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First of all, you don't want the xpath to do a lot of works. So, be little bit more considerate when you the write xpath You don't need to walk down the whole hierarchy to find the element with xpath. Relative xpath would be enough for selenium. Read this 

//tbody//td[contains(text(),'1-2-3')]
answered Feb 9, 2015 at 14:39
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  • or even better, try not use xpath, and use IDs or names. Faster and less brittle. Ask your developers to add ID to any element. Commented Feb 9, 2015 at 15:00
  • @PeterMasiar This is a Web Table you know. So ids or names are always not an option Commented Feb 9, 2015 at 15:09
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For a quick and dirty method that will be fragile and perform poorly, but will allow you to get your test working, open the page in Firefox, open the development tools, find the element in the source viewer, right click, and there should be an option to create an XPath query.

Just noticed the "contains" in the question, if that's important then ignore this answer.

answered Feb 15, 2015 at 19:37
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I will suggest to use xpath only if you don't have

  • id
  • classname
  • tagname

Use contains in xpath:

  • For Android:

     driver.findElement(By.xpath("//label[contains(@id,'dv-textbox-label-SubList')]");

  • For iOS:

    iosDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//UIAStaticText[contains(@name,'MOBDishwasher')]"));
demouser123
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answered Jul 15, 2016 at 5:58
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xpath:

//td[contains(text(),'1-2-3')]

css:

td:contains('1-2-3')

Better would be an attribute (id, class, name etc.) in the element and then for example:

xpath:

//td[@id='123-value']

or css:

td#123-value
answered Sep 18, 2017 at 11:33

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