How to find an element which contains using Selenium
robotframework, selenium, xpath, xpath-1.0
Solution
To locate the element:
<td>By Company </td>
You can use either of the following xpath:
Using `normalize-space()`:
"//td[contains(normalize-space(translate(., '\u00A0\u00A0', ' ')), 'By Company')]"
Using `text()`:
"//td[text()='By Company\u00A0\u00A0']"
Using `contains()`:
"//td[contains(., 'By Company\u00A0\u00A0')]"
However, ideally you may like to avoid the NO-BREAK SPACE character and use either of the following solutions:
Using `starts-with()`:
"//td[starts-with(., 'By Company')]"
Using `contains()`:
"//td[contains(., 'By Company')]"
Reference
You can find a relevant detailed discussion in:
- Using XPATH to search text containing ` `
tl; dr
Unicode Character 'NO-BREAK SPACE' (U+00A0)
Problem
``` <td>By Company </td> ``` I need to capture xpath of the above element. I tried following alternatives, but nothing seems to be working in chrome. Can you please suggest any other option. ``` "//td[normalize-space(text())='By Company\u00a0']" "//td[normalize-space(text())='By Company\u00a0\u00a0']" "//td[text()='By Company\u00a0']" "//td[text()[normalize-space(.)='By Company\u00a0']]" "//td[text()[normalize-space()='By Company\u00a0']]" ```