Xpath select div that contains class AND whose specific child element contains text

Question

With the help of this SO question I have an almost working xpath     div contains  class   measure-tab   and contains     someText      However this gets two divs  in one it s the child td that has someText  the other it s child span   How do I narrow it down to the one with the span    lt div class  measure-tab  gt     lt  -- table html omitted -- gt     lt td gt  someText lt  td gt   lt  div gt    lt div class  measure-tab  gt    lt -- I want to select this div  and use contains  class     lt div gt       lt span gt  someText lt  span gt    lt -- that contains a deeply nested span with this text    lt  div gt   lt  div gt

User · Answer

You can change your second condition to check only the span element:

...and contains(div/span, 'someText')]

If the span isn't always inside another div you can also use

...and contains(.//span, 'someText')]

This searches for the span anywhere inside the div.

User · Answer

You could use the xpath       div  class  measure-tab  and    span contains     someText      Input     lt root gt   lt div class  measure-tab  gt     lt td gt  someText lt  td gt   lt  div gt   lt div class  measure-tab  gt     lt div gt       lt div2 gt          lt span gt someText2 lt  span gt      lt  div2 gt     lt  div gt   lt  div gt   lt  root gt    Output        Element   lt div class  measure-tab  gt     lt div gt       lt div2 gt         lt span gt someText2 lt  span gt       lt  div2 gt     lt  div gt   lt  div gt

User · Answer

You can use ancestor   I find that this is easier to read because the element you are actually selecting is at the end of the path     span contains text    someText    ancestor  div contains  class   measure-tab

User · Answer

To find a div of a certain class that contains a span at any depth containing certain text  try     div contains  class   measure-tab   and contains    span   someText      That said  this solution looks extremely fragile  If the table happens to contain a span with the text you re looking for  the div containing the table will be matched  too  I d suggest to find a more robust way of filtering the elements  For example by using IDs or top-level document structure

[xpath] Xpath: select div that contains class AND whose specific child element contains text

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