How do I find an element that contains specific text in Selenium WebDriver Python

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I m trying to test a complicated JavaScript interface with Selenium  using the Python interface  and across multiple browsers   I have a number of buttons of the form   lt div gt My Button lt  div gt   I d like to be able to search for buttons based on  quot My Button quot   or non-case-sensitive  partial matches such as  quot my button quot  or  quot button quot    I m finding this amazingly difficult  to the extent to which I feel like I m missing something obvious  The best thing I have so far is  driver find elements by xpath    div contains text     quot     text     quot       This is case-sensitive  however  The other thing I ve tried is iterating through all the divs on the page  and checking the element text property  However  every time you get a situation of the form   lt div class  quot outer quot  gt  lt div class  quot inner quot  gt My Button lt  div gt  lt  div gt   div outer also has  quot My Button quot  as the text  To fix that  I ve tried looking to see if div outer is the parent of div inner  but I couldn t figure out how to do that  element get element by xpath       returns an element s parent  but it tests not equal to div outer   Also  iterating through all the elements on the page seems to be really slow  at least using the Chrome webdriver  Ideas   I asked  and answered  a more specific version here  How to get text of an element in Selenium WebDriver  without including child element text

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Try this  It s very easy  driver getPageSource   contains  quot text to search quot     This really worked for me in Selenium WebDriver

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Use driver find elements by xpath and matches regex matching function for the case insensitive search of the element by its text   driver find elements by xpath      matches    My Button    i

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Similar problem  Find  lt button gt Advanced    lt  button gt   Maybe this will give you some ideas  please transfer the concept from Java to Python    wait until ExpectedConditions elementToBeClickable        driver findElements By tagName  button    stream   filter i - gt  i getText   equals  Advanced       findFirst   get     click

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In the HTML which you have provided   lt div gt My Button lt  div gt   The text My Button is the innerHTML and have no whitespaces around it so you can easily use text   as follows  my element   driver find element by xpath  quot   div text    My Button   quot     Note  text   selects all text node children of the context node   Text with leading trailing spaces In case the relevant text containing whitespaces either in the beginning   lt div gt    My Button lt  div gt   or at the end   lt div gt My Button    lt  div gt   or at both the ends   lt div gt  My Button  lt  div gt   In these cases you have two options   You can use contains   function which determines whether the first argument string contains the second argument string and returns boolean true or false as follows    my element   driver find element by xpath  quot   div contains     My Button    quot     You can use normalize-space   function which strips leading and trailing white-space from a string  replaces sequences of whitespace characters by a single space  and returns the resulting string as follows    driver find element by xpath  quot   div normalize-space    My Button    quot       XPath expression for variable text In case the text is a variable  you can use  foo   quot foo bar quot  my element   driver find element by xpath  quot   div     quot    foo    quot    quot

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wait until ExpectedConditions visibilityOfElementLocated By xpath  quot     contains text     YourTextHere    quot      assertNotNull driver findElement By xpath  quot     contains text     YourTextHere    quot      String yourButtonName   driver findElement By xpath  quot     contains text     YourTextHere    quot    getAttribute  quot innerText quot    assertTrue yourButtonName equalsIgnoreCase  quot YourTextHere quot

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You can also use it with Page Object Pattern  e g   Try this code     FindBy xpath        contains text     Best Choice      WebElement buttonBestChoice

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You could try an XPath expression like     div contains text     quot  0  quot   and  class  quot inner quot    format text

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Try the following   driver find elements by xpath      contains text     My Button

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Interestingly virtually all answers revolve around XPath s function contains    neglecting the fact it is case sensitive - contrary to the OP s ask  If you need case insensitivity  that is achievable in XPath 1 0  the version contemporary browsers support   though it s not pretty - by using the translate   function  It substitutes a source character to its desired form  by using a translation table  Constructing a table of all upper case characters will effectively transform the node s text to its lower   form - allowing case-insensitive matching  here s just the prerogative       contains      translate text     ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz         my button          will match a source text like  quot mY bUTTon quot   The full Python call  driver find elements by xpath  quot     contains translate text     ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ     abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz      my button    quot    Naturally this approach has its drawbacks - as given  it ll work only for Latin text  if you want to cover Unicode characters - you ll have to add them to the translation table  I ve done that in the sample above - the last character is the Cyrillic symbol  quot   quot    And if we lived in a world where browsers supported XPath 2 0 and up    but not happening any time soon      we could having used the functions lower-case    yet  not fully locale-aware   and matches  for regex searches  with the case-insensitive   i   flag

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will be looking for any HTML tag  Where if some text is common for Button and div tag and if     is categories it will not work as expected  If you need to select any specific then You can get it by declaring HTML Element tag  Like  driver find element by xpath  quot   div contains text    Add User    quot   driver find element by xpath  quot   button contains text    Add User    quot

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Simply use This  driver find elements by xpath      text      quot My Button quot

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