How to locate a span with a specific text in Selenium? (Using Java)

Question

I\'m having trouble locating a span element in Selenium using java.

the HTML looks like:

Answer 1

Your all xpath are looks OK, Just some syntactically incorrect. you are missing // in your xpath

The correct xpath are as below :-

By by = By.xpath("//span[.='Settings']")

Or

By by = By.xpath("//span[text()='Settings']")

Or

By by = By.xpath("//div[@class='settings-padding']/span"))

Or you can use cssSelector as :-

By by = By.cssSelector("div.settings-padding > span"))

Using anyone of the above By locator you can locate element as below :-

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
WebElement el = wait.until(presenceOfElementLocated(by));

Hope it helps...:)