How to select a web element by text with Selenium WebDriver, Java

Question

I need to find the following element on the web page

<div class="b-datalist__item__addr">[email protected]</div>

I'm coding with Java for Selenium WebDriver.
Need the exact CSS selector for this element to use it with driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(the-selector).click command.
div[class='b-datalist__item__addr'] selector is not good enough since I must search according to [email protected] text that is not a link so I can't use findElement(By.linkText()) command.

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Saifur · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-04 15:56:14Z

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Css does not allow you do text based search. xpath is the only option there.

//div[contains(text(),'[email protected]')]

answered Jun 4, 2015 at 15:56

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Prophet Over a year ago

is there a way to add the classname or any additional parameter to the xpath selector above?

Saifur Over a year ago

@Eliyahu Yes. you can easily add //div[contains(text(),'[email protected]')][@class='classname']. Using @ since classname is an attribute

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-19 08:23:48Z

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contains(node, substring) might solve the problem, but note that if there are several elements with similar text contents, e.g.

Predicate [contains(text(),'[email protected]')] will match all of them

In this case it's better to use starts-with(node, substring):

//div[starts-with(text(),'[email protected]')]

or fetch required element by exact text content:

//div[text()='[email protected]']

answered Aug 19, 2017 at 8:23

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