How to locate an element using an xpath that contains an apostrophe

Question

I am trying to locate an element, which is a textbox that contains hint text:

<textarea placeholder="What's going on?"><textarea>

Here's what I have tried, which is not working.

@FindBy(xpath="//textarea[@placeholder='What\'s going on?']")
public WebElement inputBox;

Possible duplicate of [Escape single quote in XPath with Nokogiri?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14822153/escape-single-quote-in-xpath-with-nokogiri) — Piotr P. Karwasz, Nov 08 '19 at 17:53

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 08 '19 at 17:55

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Try this instead:

@FindBy(xpath="//textarea[@placeholder=\"What's going on?\"]")

It escapes the surrounding quotes so it can handle the quote correctly.

answered Nov 08 '19 at 17:55

Word Rearranger

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 08 '19 at 19:32

0

Please try below xpath :

 //textarea[contains(@placeholder, "What's going on?")]

answered Nov 08 '19 at 19:32

SeleniumUser

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