how to find element using xpath selenium

Question

Here is my html of my element which i am able to find

<span data-bind="text: myAge()" xpath="1">Showing 1 of 25 people</span>

i could find above element using code like

 [FindsBy(How = How.XPath, Using = "//*[@data-bind='text: myAge()']")]

I have another element in Html like which get dynamic ids

<input class="form-control" data-bind="textInput: code, attr: { id: 'myTable_code_' + $index() }" type="text" id="myTable_code_0" >

i tried to find same as above

 [FindsBy(How = How.XPath, Using = "//*[@data-bind='textInput: code']")]

But i get error that "It is not able to find element"

How to fix this?

Guy · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-17 11:13:37Z

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The data-bind attribute is "textInput: code, attr: { id: 'myTable_code_' + $index() }", you need to use all of it

[FindsBy(How = How.XPath, Using = "//*[@data-bind='textInput: code, attr: { id: 'myTable_code_' + $index() }']")]

Or partial attribute

[FindsBy(How = How.XPath, Using = "//*[contains(@data-bind, 'textInput: code')]")]

answered Jun 17, 2019 at 11:13

Guy

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6 Comments

Perfect answer. Can you give me some helpful link to learn this?

@James which part are you referring to? I don't know any official docs for anything in my answer, this is just from experience.

The one you used to find using contains

@James I just searched in google, something like "selenium find element by partial attribute", for example stackoverflow.com/questions/31248804/…

There are some good docs on MDN. I prefer CSS selectors and you can find docs on the w3c site.

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