XPath “Contains” Method | Selenium Automation

XPath “Contains”Method - Selenium Automation

One of the most used xpath function is contains, Because many times we won’t find the unique attributes like id or class name etc.. but we will be knowing button name or text, in that case we can use contains method.

Contains:

By using 'contains' function in XPath, we can extract all the elements which matches a particular text value.

Example: in the below, I’m finding the “Selenium Tutorial” menu link with using text “Selenium Tutorial”

  //a[contains(text(),'Selenium Tutorial')]

We can use contains method if we know partial text also like below example:

//a[contains(text(),'nium Tut')]

Complete Code with contains example in Selenium:

package tests;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class ContainsXpathDemo {

static WebDriver driver;

public static void main(String args[]) throws    InterruptedException {
  System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "‎⁨path");
  driver = new ChromeDriver();
  driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15,     TimeUnit.SECONDS);
  driver.get("https://mahantesh-hadimani.blogspot.com");
  Thread.sleep(5000);
  driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(text(),'Selenium    Tutorial')]")).click();
  Thread.sleep(5000);
  driver.close();

    }
}