I want to click on the button with special text.
The button looks like
<button>
<span class="totalStake">0.00</span> <span class="isocode">USD</span>
<span class="freeStake"></span> Place Bet
</button>
I'm working with python and selenium
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("***")
...
button_text = "Place Bet"
xpath_wrong = '//button[contains(text(), "%s")]' % button_text #!!!not working
xpath_good = "//button[text()[contains(.,'%s')]]" % button_text #!!!working
xpath_wrong does not find the element. But xpath_good is successful. I was deadly sure that they do the same things, and that's why I even did not try xpath_good for more than 2 hours trying to find another way of solving the problem.
What is the difference between these expressions?
