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Collin Hurst
Collin Hurst

Reputation: 63

Can I apply a variable to text-based xPath searches on Selenium WebDriver?

Currently I know you can search for web elements on xpath with this syntax:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[text()='text to be found']"));

Is there anyway I can search for elements from a variable String? I would like to be able to make a method like this:

public boolean nameExists( String name ) {
     if (driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[text()= name ]")) )
        return true;
     else 
        return false;
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1315

Answers (1)

budi
budi

Reputation: 6551

You could do something like this:

public boolean nameExists(String name) {
     return driver.findElements(By.xpath("//*[text()='" + name + "']")).size() != 0;
}

Remember that findElement returns a WebElement not a boolean. Also, if the given element does not exist, Selenium will throw a NoSuchElementException.

Instead, we can utilize findElements to find all the WebElements with the given String name from your XPath. If the returned List<WebElement> contains any values (.size() != 0), this means at least one WebElement with the given name exists.

Upvotes: 3

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