Select an element by the text it contains with Selenium Webdriver

Question

I\'ve jjust started off with Selenium Webdriver and I\'ve hit an issuee straight away involving the buttons I\'m trying to select/click all have no IDs and share the same cl

Answer 1

Fairly easy if you use xpath. if it has unique text your xpath should look like something like this

//button[.='xyz']

So, here "." points to the parent in HTML hierarchy and just look for text

Answer 2

You can find the link by the visible text.

IWebElement XyzLink= _browser.FindElement(By.LinkText("xyz"));

Also you can locate the link by partial link text as follows,

IWebElement XyzPartialLink= _browser.FindElement(By.PartialLinkText("XYZ"));

For example this will locate a link element which contains 'XYZ' in its text.