Selenium: how to find div with specific content?

Question

I need to find a <div> with certain content and click it from Selenium, as so:

<tr>
  <td>clickAndWait</td>
  <td>//div[@class='gwt-Label' ***WITH CONTENT='Logout'***]</td>
  <td>5000</td>
</tr>

Is there some way to do this? I don't want to use an absolute xpath.

Dave Hunt · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-02 14:40:19Z

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You could also use CSS locators:

<div class="gwt-Label">This FindMe DIV</div>

Could be located using:

css=.gwt-Label:contains('FindMe')

answered Feb 2, 2010 at 14:40

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Jonas Byström Over a year ago

Selenium identifies the locator, finds the div, but the click never comes through! Any ideas?

Dave Hunt Over a year ago

It might be that the DIV isn't the element that responds to the click. Is there a parent/child element that could be more suitable? There are also sometimes issues with click and you could try the mouseDown, mouseUp commands instead.

krosenvold · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-02 13:45:22Z

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try this:

 //div[@class='gwt-Label' and contains(., 'Logout')]

edited Feb 2, 2010 at 13:45

answered Feb 2, 2010 at 12:59

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Jonas Byström Over a year ago

Sounds great, but I can't get it to work. Searched for documentation, but found none; do you have a link?

krosenvold Over a year ago

Oh. You need to drop the single quotes around '.'. Edited

Jonas Byström Over a year ago

Ah, it's XPath, hadn't realized that. Still doesn't work, but hopefully I'll be able to fix it now. Thanks!

Jonas Byström Over a year ago

Selenium identifies the locator, finds the div, but the click never comes through! Any ideas?

krosenvold Over a year ago

Are you sure the div is the appropriate target of the click ? The way I remember GWT there's an awful lot of layers

edA-qa mort-ora-y · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-09 08:16:11Z

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Perhaps your XPath just isn't quite doing what you think. You may need to use the string() function to concatenate all the text in a block.

For example, in TestPlan (using Selenium as backend) you would do something like this:

Click //div[@class='gwt-Label'][contains(string(),'Logout')]

Note the use of string()

answered Feb 9, 2010 at 8:16

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