How can I match on an attribute that contains a certain string

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I am having a problem selecting nodes by attribute when the attributes contains more than one word   For example    lt div class  atag btag    gt    This is my xpath expression         class  atag    The expression works with    lt div class  atag    gt    but not for the previous example   How can I select the  lt div gt

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To add onto bobince s answer    If whatever tool library you using uses Xpath 2 0  you can also do this       count index-of tokenize  class    s       classname     1    count   is apparently needed because index-of   returns a sequence of each index it has a match at in the string

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Be aware that bobince s answer might be overly complicated if you can assume that the class name you are interested in is not a substring of another possible class name  If this is true  you can simply use substring matching via the contains function  The following will match any element whose class contains the substring  atag        contains  class  atag      If the assumption above does not hold  a substring match will match elements you don t intend  In this case  you have to find the word boundaries  By using the space delimiters to find the class name boundaries  bobince s second answer finds the exact matches       contains concat      normalize-space  class           atag       This will match atag and not matag

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EDIT  see bobince s solution which uses contains rather than start-with  along with a trick to ensure the comparison is done at the level of a complete token  lest the  atag  pattern be found as part of another  tag      atag btag   is an odd value for the class attribute   but never the less   try         starts-with  class  atag

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try this      contains  class   atag

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I came here searching solution for Ranorex Studio 9 0 1  There is no contains   there yet  Instead we can use regex like   div  class  atag

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For the links which contains common url have to console in a variable  Then attempt it sequentially   webelements allLinks driver findelements By xpath    a contains  href  http   122 11 38 214 dl appdl application apk        int linkCount allLinks length    for int i 0   lt linkCount i          driver findelement allLinks i   click

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You can try the following  By CssSelector  div atag btag

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mjv s answer is a good start but will fail if atag is not the first classname listed   The usual approach is the rather unwieldy         contains concat       class          atag       this works as long as classes are separated by spaces only  and not other forms of whitespace  This is almost always the case  If it might not be  you have to make it more unwieldy still       contains concat      normalize-space  class           atag        Selecting by classname-like space-separated strings is such a common case it s surprising there isn t a specific XPath function for it  like CSS3 s   class   atag

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A 2 0 XPath that works       tokenize  class   s     atag     or with a variable       tokenize  class   s     classname

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Here s an example that finds div elements whose className contains atag     div contains  class   atag      Here s an example that finds div elements whose className contains atag and btag     div contains  class   atag   and contains  class   btag      However  it will also find partial matches like class  catag bobtag    If you don t want partial matches  see bobince s answer below

[xpath] How can I match on an attribute that contains a certain string?

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