I'm looking to get the text "Interesting" which is the first occurrence of the class b after h1.important.
How would I do that in Selenium?
<div class="a">
<div class="b">Not interesting</div>
</div>
<div class="title">
<h1 class="important">Title</h1>
</div>
<div class="a">
<div class="b">Interesting</div>
</div>Is there a way to find "Interesting" using a fancy selector or xpath?
This would also match the first element: driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(".b").text
driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(".b")
this will return a list in Python-Selenium bindings. so you cannot do .text on it.
Instead try to use driver.find_element like below :
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("div.title+div>.b").text
in case you want to use xpath, try this :
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='title']/following-sibling::div/div").text
Note that, CSS_SELECTOR is preferred over xpath in Selenium automation.
This XPath
//h1[@class='important']/../following-sibling::*//*[@class='b']
Should give you the next b class occurrence after the h1.important node as you asking
This xpath should work
(//h1[@class="important"]/following::*[@class='b'])[1]
