class name and then the tag name contains the distinguish text

Question

I have class name active and then there is unique text called active text in span(which is nested). Class name active is the unique among other class names then nested text is unique. How would i click on that. I have used following methods.

  FindElement(By.XPath("//li[@class='active']//*[contains(.,'active text')]"));

also i tried

  findelement(BY.xpath(//li[@class='active']//div//div//div//span[contains(.,'active text')]"))

also tried this

  FindElement(By.XPath("//li[contains(@class,'active')] and //span[contains(.,'active text')]")).Text;

Every time i get no such element found ANythoughts this is the html code

<li class="active">
 <div class="a">
  <div class="b">
   <div class="c">
    <h1></h1>
     <h3 class="d"> some text</h3>
      <div class="e">
       <span class="f">
         Active Text</span>
</div></div></div></div>
</li>

Xpath contain is case sensative. Try: FindElement(By.XPath("//li[@class='active']//*[contains(.,'Active Text')]")); — DMart, Feb 18 '20 at 19:48

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 18 '20 at 20:10

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You can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

CssSelector:

FindElement(By.CssSelector("li.active span.f"));

XPath 1:

FindElement(By.XPath("//li[@class='active']//span[normalize-space()='Active Text']"));

XPath 2:

FindElement(By.XPath("//li[@class='active']//span[@class='f' and normalize-space()='Active Text']"));

answered Feb 18 '20 at 20:10

DebanjanB

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Do i need to insert text() after normalize or not? – Newbie Feb 19 '20 at 13:56
@Newbie You won't need – DebanjanB Feb 19 '20 at 13:59
if i want to use it for the
another text
do i use the same way? – Newbie Feb 19 '20 at 14:38
still gettting no such element – Newbie Feb 19 '20 at 18:28

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 19 '20 at 15:00

FindElement(By.XPath("//li[@class='active']//span[contains(text(),'Active Text')]"));

OR

FindElement(By.XPath("//li[@class='active']//span[@class='f' and contains(text(),'Active Text')]"));

Please try the above code. both will work. also, let me know if clarification is required

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 19 '20 at 19:58

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So what worked for me was this,

FindElement(By.CssSelector("li.active")).FindElement(By.XPath("//span[contains(.,'Active Text')]"));

answered Feb 19 '20 at 19:58

Newbie

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class name and then the tag name contains the distinguish text

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