Finding xpath from text with br
selenium-webdriver, xpath
Solution
You can try to use below `XPath` expression to match required `div` by its text:
//div[normalize-space()="test foo bar"]
Note that function to remove white-spaces called actually `normalize-space()`, but not `sanitize-space()`
Update
If you want to use only `"foo"` and `"bar"` text nodes, then try
//div[concat(normalize-space(text()[2]), normalize-space(text()[3]))="foobar"]')
or if to use them separately
//div[normalize-space(text()[2])='foo' and normalize-space(text()[3])='bar']
Problem
I have this html code ``` <div> <span>test</span> foo <br /> bar </div> ``` And I'm trying to find it with the text directly inside the div (so foo bar). Normally, I would go //div[normalize-space(text()) = 'foobar'], but because of the it is not working. I tried to add spaces or special chars, or trim them, but nothing seem to work. From tests I saw that ``` //div/text() = foo bar //div/text()[1] = foo //div/text()[2] = bar //div[text()[1] = foo] = the div //div[text()[2] = bar] = nothing ``` It seem that text() return only a index[2] when returning a value and not for searching a value. I tested this code with java / selenium and firepath (a plugin of firebug to test xpath). Anybody have an idea on how to get the div from the text, and if possible, without using contains because they are not accurate. Thank you.