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Andrei Tarutin
Andrei Tarutin

Reputation: 683

XPath for all elements without descendants of specific class?

I have CSS selector and was trying to apply it in selenium. Css selector is .parentclass:not(:has(.childclass)). I am trying to get all parent elements which do not have descendent element with class childclass. It works perfect in jQuery. But in selenium seems it doesn't work.

So I decided to try XPath. What is the equivalent in XPath to the aforementioned CSS selector? I was able to get worked the following: //*[contains(@class, 'parentclass')]. But this is only first part of the condition. How can I say in XPath that I need only parents which don't contain children with CSS class childclass?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3837

Answers (1)

kjhughes
kjhughes

Reputation: 111601

This XPath,

//*[contains(@class, 'parentclass') and not(*[contains(@class, 'childclass')])]

will select all elements whose @class attribute contains "parentclass" and whose children do not have a @class attribute containing "childclass".

Apply the space-padding trick to avoid false substring matches if necessary.

Update per OP comment:

The above XPath can easily be adapted to exclude those elements whose descendants, rather than children, meet the stated condition:

//*[contains(@class, 'parentclass') and not(.//*[contains(@class, 'childclass')])]

Upvotes: 4

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