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xpathxpath-2.0
Moez Hirani
Moez Hirani

Reputation: 31

Locating elements using wildcards in Xpath

I have a table with dynamically generated rows that have ids like the following

id='cu1111-co23466-t1-a23456'
id='cu1111-co23466-t2-a3246'
id='cu1111-co23466-t3-a265873'
id='cu1111-co23466-t3-a0985'
id='cu1111-co23466-t2-a3274'

How can I select multiple <tr> elements using wildcards? Say I wish to select all <tr> elements that have cu1111-co-23466-t2 in their id... I wish to do something like..

//*[@id='cu1111-co23466-t2-a*']

But its not selecting any rows. I am using the Developer Tools Console in Chrome to do the check. It gives me error: 

Error: INVALID_EXPRESSION_ERR: DOM XPath Exception 51

I think I have XPath 1.0 . Is there any way to check what version I have and how to upgrade it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 741

Answers (1)

choroba
choroba

Reputation: 241858

If the wildcard isn't in a middle of the string, you can try

//@id[contains(., 'cu1111-co23466-t2-a')]

You might also use the starts-with function.

Upvotes: 2

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