Protractor Conditional Selector

Question

I am using Selenium Protractor and want to select all elements from the following list except one that contains text \"Cat\" and then perform some operations on the remainin

Answer 1

You can create a List selecting all the elements except one that contains text Cat using the following Locator Strategy:

• xpath:

  //div[@class='mainDiv']//div[@class='childDiv'][not(contains(.,'Cat'))]
  

When using Selenium and css-selectors:

The :contains pseudo-class isn't in the CSS Spec and is not supported by either Firefox or Chrome (even outside WebDriver). You can find a detailed discussion in selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidSelectorException with “span:contains('string')”

However, if the elements always appears within the DOM Tree in a specific order, e.g. Cat always at the forth child, you can also use:

• cssSelector:

  div.mainDiv div.childDiv:not(:nth-child(4))
  

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Reference

You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

• While fetching all links,Ignore logout link from the loop and continue navigation in selenium java
• How to write a CSS Selector selecting elements NOT having a certain attribute?