Is there a way to click an element using Partial text or complete Text using Appium

Question

I am trying to click an element with text "No, Thanks" using below code, I tried various options so far such as

driver.findElementByXPath("//*[contains(text(),'THANKS')]").click();

 driver.findElement(By.name("No,THANKS")).click();
 driver.findElementByName("No,THANKS").click();

There is no other element with same text. I am using Appium Driver and Samsung device.

Have you tried to inspect your element with the Appium inspector? Based on my experience, text on iOS mobile elements might be available from `name` or `label` attributes. And it is better to use iOSNsPredicate strategy instead of xpath. It works way faster! — Yevhen Danchenko, Mar 05 '20 at 16:11

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 05 '20 at 08:30

2

If it is TextView, you can consider the following

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//android.widget.TextView[@text='No, Thanks']")

answered Mar 05 '20 at 08:30

Nithin Mohan

372
1
9

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 05 '20 at 09:05

1

Seems you were close. The text No, Thanks contains a , character in between which you need to avoid. So effectively you can use either of the following xpath based Locator Strategies:

xpath 1:

driver.findElementByXPath("//*[starts-with(., 'No') and contains(., 'Thanks')]").click();

xpath 2:

driver.findElementByXPath("//*[contains(., 'No') and contains(., 'Thanks')]").click();

answered Mar 05 '20 at 09:05

undetected Selenium

183,867
41
278
352

How can I use contains for Cart? //XCUIElementTypeButton[@name="Cart, 1"] – Bhoomiputra Dec 05 '22 at 04:45

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 29 '21 at 08:45

0

Please try this:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//android.widget.TextView[contains(@text,'No, Thanks')")).click();

answered Apr 29 '21 at 08:45

Harjeet Singh

1

Is there a way to click an element using Partial text or complete Text using Appium

3 Answers3