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I am using Selenium webdriver with java.

I am trying to find elements in drop down lists, can`t access it by exact id/name/xpath because those are dynamic elements, so I tried to locate it by relative xpath, and it works but not fully, please see image below:

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As you can see on top left, there is a drop down overlay with 3 options, ALL/ACTIVE/INACTIVE, now I managed to locate all 3 of them by using relative xpath as shown on image:

//*[@class="cdk-overlay-pane"]//*[@class="mat-option-text"]

But how to now get one element (out of 3 in this case) that got specific text, for example "Active" ? I tried following:

//*[@class="cdk-overlay-pane"]//*[@class="mat-option-text"]//*[contains(text(),'Active')]

But it does not find anything, any help would be welcome!

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Found a solution, search for text using "contains"

Here`s working relative xpath in my case:

//*[@class="cdk-overlay-pane"]//*[contains(text(), 'All')]

It would return element with "All" text that is located within drop down panel.

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just for info, if you have 2 texts: 'All' 'All active', you will match 2 elements. Better to do equals of string, just to normalize the white space.
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Try with

//*[@class="cdk-overlay-pane"]//span[@class="mat-option-text" and normalize-space(text())="All"]
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Indeed it is much better solution, I used contains, because of the white spaces (did not realise I could remove it the way you did, thank you)

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