How do I get the first table (table1) using xpath for Webdriver?
<span id="dynamically generated id" data-id="table1">
<table>
...
</table>
</span>
<span id="dynamically generated id" data-id="table2">
<table>
...
</table>
</span>
I am able to get all data-id elements but I want to filter within it for text table1 to get the exact element.
This did not work!
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//@*[starts-with(name(),'data-id') [contains(text(),'table1')]]"));
4 Answers
You get the table like this:
//span[@data-id='table1']/table
Select the data-id attribute and get the child element of name table.
Answering my own question...This appears to get the exact element.
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@data-id='table1']"))
I think you can also use the cssSelector
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("[data-id='table1']"));
Try (built this be combining xpath: find a node that has a given attribute whose value contains a string and Getting attribute using XPath)
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(@data-id, 'table1')]/@data-id"));
