Search by exact text in xpath selenium

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I have a question regarding xpath. I try to locate the element that is in a drop down for example Surveys when I try to search using contains it is working

//li[contains(text(),'Surveys')]

But when I tried to search exact it is failed

//li[text()='Surveys']

Can someone please advise?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 19 '19 at 15:29

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The text Surveys have a lot of white-spaces around it. So alternatively to suppress the white-spaces you can use the following Locator Strategy:

//li[normalize-space()='Surveys']

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 19 '19 at 14:42

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Use normalize-space to remove whitespace characters:

//li[normalize-space(.)='Surveys']

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 19 '19 at 14:50

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Your "exact match" is missing the "new line" character, "\n". Try:

//li[text()='Surveys\n']

answered Dec 19 '19 at 14:50

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score -1 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 19 '19 at 14:54

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I have tried it before, but you can try a newer way, I am still using it and it is working fine

right click --> copy XPath --> fix " "

answered Dec 19 '19 at 14:54

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Search by exact text in xpath selenium

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