Unable to locate the element by CSS selector and Xpath

Question

I am trying to locate this tag with CSS selector inner text

<a href="/introduction-to-selenium.html">1) Introduction</a>

I have used the xpath:

a.contains("1) Introduction")

But its not working. Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

The selector you're using is not xpath one, the correct xpath selector would be like this:

//a[contains(string(), "1) Introduction")]

Answer 2

To locate the element you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• linkText:

  1) Introduction
  

• partialLinkText:

  Introduction
  

• cssSelector:

  a[href^='/introduction-to-selenium']
  

• xpath:

  //a[starts-with(@href, '/introduction-to-selenium') and contains(., 'Introduction')]
  

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Outro

selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidSelectorException with “span:contains('string')”

Answer 3

you can use contains also in xpath to identify the tag.

eg : //a[contains(text(),'Introduction')]

There should not be multiple "Introduction" in the page.