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Harri
Harri

Reputation: 2732

Selecting cousin element with XPATH

Given following markup

<div>
    <a>Username1</a>
</div>
<div>
    <button>Unblock</button>
</div>
<div>
    <a>Username2</a>
</div>
<div>
    <button>Unblock</button>
</div>
<div>
    <a>Username3</a>
</div>
<div>
    <button>Unblock</button>
</div>

How do I select button element which is a cousin of a element with text Username2?

I can select the a element with //a[contains(., 'Username2')], so I thought that //a[contains(., 'Username2')]/following-sibling::/div/button would select the correct button, but that does not work. I think that it's not even valid XPATH.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2879

Answers (1)

Tomalak
Tomalak

Reputation: 338376

You were close:

//a[contains(., 'Username2')]/../following-sibling::div[1]/button

To navigate to the cousin you first have to go to the parent (..) and then to its sibling.

Note that the following-sibling:: axis selects all following siblings, not only the first one. This means you must use [1] if you just want the first.

This would also work:

//a[. = 'Username2']/../following-sibling::div[1]/button

So would this:

//div[a = 'Username2']/following-sibling::div[1]/button

Upvotes: 8

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