C# Selenium XPATH Dynamic Button Select Based on Text in Span

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I'm trying to select a button that is dynamically created based on the name of the person in the span and I am having trouble getting the XPATH syntax correct. There would be several of these buttons dynamically created on the page so the identifier I need to use is the customer name. Here is the HTML of the button.

<button id="172369678903-announce" name="172369678903" data-selected-address-id="172369678903" data-unit-ids="[&quot;miq://document:1.0/Contract/a:1.0/Unit:1.0/dc290763-6cce-46c5-a878-3b5b0e615740#35176ee2-51c5-479b-b63e-a2cc958a2de9&quot;]" data-url="/spr/returns/addressSelection/dc290763-6cce-46c5-a878-3b5b0e615740" class="a-button-text selected-address" type="button">
    <div class="a-column a-span12">
        <div class="a-row">
        <div class="a-section a-spacing-none a-text-left">
            <span class="a-text-bold">
        John Doe
            </span>
        </div>
        </div>
        <div class="a-row">
        <div class="a-section a-spacing-none a-text-left">
            <span>
        20410 SOME STREET, WALNUT, CA, 91789-2435
            </span>
        </div>
        </div>
        <div class="a-row">
        <div class="a-section a-spacing-none a-text-left">
            <span>
Phone number: 2813308004
            </span>
        </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</button>

I have the information John Doe and that is how I need to be able to click on this item. Here is the XPATH syntax I currently have but have tried many different forms of it. The variable shipName contains the name John Doe in it.

var addyFinder = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//button/span[contains(text(),'" + shipName.Trim() + "')]"));

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-22 21:12:49Z

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Try below XPath to select required button node:

"//button[normalize-space(.//span)='" + shipName.Trim() + "']"

answered Oct 22, 2018 at 21:12

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Roro Over a year ago

Worked perfectly. Thanks for your help.

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-23 10:24:12Z

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As you mentioned there would be several of these buttons dynamically created on the page and you need to use the customer name, so you can create a function and call the function with any of the usernames as follows:

Function defination:

public void click_user(string username)
{
    driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//button[@class='a-button-text selected-address' and contains(@data-url,'addressSelection')]//span[@class='a-text-bold'][normalize-space()='" + username + "']")).Click();
}

Calling the function:

click_user("John Doe");
//or
click_user("Roro");

answered Oct 23, 2018 at 10:24

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