Xpath for button having text as 'New'

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In our application almost in every screen we have a button with text 'New', Here is the html source for one of the button: ``` ``` I have tried using the below statement to click on the button: ``` driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[[@type, 'submit'] and [text()='New']]")).click(); ``` But this was not working ``` org.openqa.selenium.InvalidSelectorException: The given selector //button[[@type= 'submit'] and [text()='New']] is either invalid or does not result in a WebElement. ``` Currently I am using the below code to click on the button: ``` List allButt = driver.findElements(By.tagName("button")); for (WebElement w : allButt) { if (w.getText().matches("New")) { w.click(); break; } } ``` As I have…

Accepted Answer

Your xpath syntax is wrong - you don't need the inner set of square brackets - but even if you fix this:

```
//button[@type, 'submit' and text()='New']
```

it won't select what you want it to. The problem is that the "New" is not text contained directly in the button element but is inside a child span element. If instead of `text()` you just use `.` then you can check the whole string value of the element (the concatenation of all descendant text nodes at whatever level)

```
//button[@type='submit' and contains(., 'New')]
```

Or check `span` instead of `text()`:

```
//button[@type='submit' and span='New']
```

(submit buttons containing a span whose value is "New")

Xpath for button having text as 'New'

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