Selenium - Find element using xpath or cssSelector

Question

I need to click on or find element "Compute vmSwitch". I tried many ways using xpath (class & contains), cssSelector as well, but could not able to locate element:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[contains(@class,'nopadding vm-create-text-style-3 block-with-text-4  ng-binding') and contains(text(), 'Compute vmSwitch')]")).click();

The code is given below:

<div class="w-full"><br>
<img class="img-responsive center-block m-t-47" src="/src/icon/background/create_vm_img5.png">
<div class="col-md-12 m-t-md  wordwrap">
<p class="nopadding vm-create-text-style-3 block-with-text-4  ng-binding">
Compute vmSwitch</p>
</div>

<div class="w-full"><br> <img class="img-responsive center-block m-t-47" src="/src/icon/background/create_vm_img5.png"> <div class="col-md-12 m-t-md wordwrap"> <p class="nopadding vm-create-text-style-3 block-with-text-4 ng-binding"> Compute vmSwitch</p> </div> — Sajid Khan
– Sajid Khan, Commented Oct 20, 2017 at 12:13
Hi Ankur, i want to click on 'Compute vmSwitch', for which i tried all possible ways.. — Sajid Khan
– Sajid Khan, Commented Oct 20, 2017 at 12:16
//*[text()='Compute vmSwitch'] or //p[text()='Compute vmSwitch'] , can u try this — Ankur Singh
– Ankur Singh, Commented Oct 20, 2017 at 12:19
In ur xpath y u have use span tag . i'm not seeing any span tag in ur code? u can use it this way //p[contains(@class,'nopadding vm-create-text-style-3 block-with-text-4 ng-binding') and contains(text(), ' Compute vmSwitch')] — Ankur Singh
– Ankur Singh, Commented Oct 20, 2017 at 12:22

Davide Patti · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-20 12:26:55Z

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Why do you try with the span tag? If this is your html:

<html>
 <head></head>
 <body>
  <div class="w-full">
   <br> 
   <img class="img-responsive center-block m-t-47" src="/src/icon/background/create_vm_img5.png"> 
   <div class="col-md-12 m-t-md wordwrap"> 
    <p class="nopadding vm-create-text-style-3 block-with-text-4 ng-binding"> Compute vmSwitch</p> 
   </div> 
  </div>
 </body>
</html>

you could try:

    WebElement elem2= driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='w-full']"));
    elem2.findElement(By.xpath(".//p[text()=' Compute vmSwitch']")).click();

answered Oct 20, 2017 at 12:26

Davide Patti

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Sajid Khan Over a year ago

Thanks Ankur & Durden for your help. But unfortunately i couldn't able to locate the element by using either ways..

Ankur Singh Over a year ago

Can you please share ? ur url

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