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Daniel Viglione
Daniel Viglione

Reputation: 9407

Searching by text using xpath

I have the following markup:

<span id="lbl_partyType" style="color:DarkBlue;">DEFENDANT
 <span style="color:darkblue;">(<b>PRIMARY</b>)</span></span>

I want to target that span by the text "DEFENDANT". I want to use xpath in JavaScript to do this. I tried the following:

var xpath = "span[text()='DEFENDANT']";;
var matchingElement = document.evaluate(xpath, document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue;

matchingElement is null. What is wrong with my xpath that it is not finding the element?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 63

Answers (1)

Kirill Polishchuk
Kirill Polishchuk

Reputation: 56162

This one should work:

//span[contains(text(), 'DEFENDANT')]

Upvotes: 1

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