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Santhosh Siddappa
Santhosh Siddappa

Reputation: 718

Unable to Locate the Text in Xpath

I am writing relational xpath i need this code to fetch "Tax" Location

<td id="td26" style="width: 16%">
<div class="bglabel" style="width: 150px; clear: both">
Tax 
<div style="float: right;">
</div>
</td>

Xpath Code which i have written

td[div[text()='Tax ']] - Not Working
td[div[contains(text(),'Tax')]] - Not Working

Upvotes: 1

Views: 125

Answers (1)

Yi Zeng
Yi Zeng

Reputation: 32895

The accepted answer changes OP's intended logic.

What OP's trying to do is to find div with text "Tax" inside a td, therefore OP's own answer is on the right track, the accepted answer isn't.

//div[contains(text(),'Tax')] locates it anywhere in DOM, which is likely to cause trouble.

What OP wants is (using . to specify current node):

//td[./div[contains(text(),'Tax')]]

Imagine there is another div also contains text "Tax", //div[contains(text(),'Tax')] will find the one OP doesn't want.

<div>Tax table</div>
<table>
  <tr>
    <td id="td26" style="width: 16%">
      <div class="bglabel" style="width: 150px; clear: both">Tax <div style="float: right;"></div></div>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

@Santhosh.S: Hope this makes sense to you.

Upvotes: 1

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