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Reputation: 5922

XPath: Get following-sibling based on text() only

Using relative XPath with Selenium, is there a way to get the text contents of following-sibling, using the text contents of both siblings as guidance?

<table class="table">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>Looking for</td>
            <td class="text-right">This!</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

In the above example, I want to retreive the text snippet This! based on the text Looking for.

The path needs to be relative in the sense that these table cells can appear anywhere on the page. The above is a cut-out of the full web page. There can also be other things inserted before inside the same <tr> block.

I have tried this which seems to find the first cell:

//text()[contains(.,'Looking for')]

However, I'm struggling with how to proceed to get the text in the 2nd sibling.

My attempt has looked something like (incorrectly):

//text()[contains(.,'Looking for')]/following-sibling::text()

Upvotes: 5

Views: 12756

Answers (3)

Nitin Subramanya
Nitin Subramanya

Reputation: 41

You can also use the below to find the 2nd sibling:

//table[@class='table']/descendant::td[last()]

To find find 1st sibling, below can be used:

//table[@class='table']/descendant::td[last()-1]

Upvotes: 1

sarjit07
sarjit07

Reputation: 10559

You can use,

//td[contains(text(),'Looking for')]//following-sibling::td[contains(text(),'This!')]

For more reference on sibling and ancestors click here

Upvotes: 0

Newcomer
Newcomer

Reputation: 503

You almost got it right, here you go, you just needed to show where exactly you want to look for. I hope this helps:

//td[text()="Looking for"]/following-sibling::td[text()="This!"]

Upvotes: 6

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