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Reputation: 147

How to write xpath for the text without html tag/attribute

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<mat-chip role="option" cdkdrag="" container="body" class="cdk-drag mat-chip mat-focus-indicator mat-primary mat-standard-chip mat-chip-with-trailing-icon ng-star-inserted" tabindex="-1" aria-disabled="false" style="" xpath="1"><div class="mat-chip-ripple"></div> Table data <mat-icon role="img" aria-hidden="false" aria-label="icon-drag-doubledot" class="mat-icon notranslate icon-drag material-icons mat-icon-no-color" data-mat-icon-type="font"></mat-icon><mat-icon role="img" matchipremove="" aria-hidden="false" aria-label="icon-close" class="mat-icon notranslate mat-chip-remove mat-chip-trailing-icon icon-close material-icons mat-icon-no-color" data-mat-icon-type="font"></mat-icon></mat-chip>

From the above HTML tags, i want to extract those Table Data text. I am unable to get the text using below xpath

//mat-chip[@role='option']//div
//mat-chip[@role='option']//div/following-sibling::text()[1]

while executing it's throwing an error 'Failed: invalid selector: The result of the xpath expression "//mat-chip[@role='option']//div/following-sibling::text()[2]" is: [object Text]. It should be an element.'

Can anyone please help

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 736

Answers (2)

Siebe Jongebloed
Siebe Jongebloed

Reputation: 4870

Selenium expects an element not a text()-node. So use this: You need this:

//mat-chip[@role='option']/div

Although I doubt that [@role='option'] has any benefits.

If you are certain that there will be only one div inside that mat-chip, you could speed up the XPath by adding [1], like this:

//mat-chip[@role='option']/div[1]

This tells the XPath engine to stop searching after it has found this first div.

Upvotes: 0

Sergey Pleshakov
Sergey Pleshakov

Reputation: 8978

That's right, the text belongs to this element //mat-chip[@role='option']

I checked it locally, all good. If doesn't work on your end then the problem somewhere else

P.S. proof

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Upvotes: 0

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