Selenium and xPath - locating a link by containing text

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I m trying to use xPath to find an element containing a piece of text  but I can t get it to work      WebElement searchItemByText   driver findElement By xpath       id  popover-search   div div ul li 1  a span contains text    Some text          If I remove the last bit with the  contains  thing  it locates my span element  but I need to select it based on the text contents  It s not gonna be a perfect match of  Some text  either  because it might contain truncated strings as well   Anyone see the issue

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Use this        id  popover-search   div div ul li 1  a span contains text    Some text      OR       id  popover-search   div div ul li 1  a span contains    Some text

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FindBy xpath      span  class  y2  and contains text     Your Text        private WebElementFacade emailLinkToVerifyAccount    This approach will work for you  hopefully

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FindBy xpath      button  class  btn btn-primary  and contains text     Submit      private WebElementFacade submitButton   public void clickOnSubmitButton         submitButton click

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I think the problem is here    contains text    Some text      To break this down    The    are a conditional that operates on each individual node in that node set -- each span node in your case  It matches if any of the individual nodes it operates on match the conditions inside the brackets   text   is a selector that matches all of the text nodes that are children of the context node -- it returns a node set   contains is a function that operates on a string  If it is passed a node set  the node set is converted into a string by returning the string-value of the node in the node-set that is first in document order    You should try to change this to   text   contains    Some text       The outer    are a conditional that operates on each individual node in that node set text   is a selector that matches all of the text nodes that are children of the context node -- it returns a node set  The inner    are a conditional that operates on each node in that node set  contains is a function that operates on a string  Here it is passed an individual text node

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