Xpath Selenium- How to locate a element by the sub text

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Hope you´re really fine and can help me with this short question. I´m trying to locate the following object id=C39_W133_V136_thtmlb_button_27 but using the text that is located after an span (text = "Edit"). Please I tried different ways but didn´t work till now, any idea?

<a href="javascript:void(0)" class="th-bt th-bt-icontext-dis icon-font" tabindex="-1" oncontextmenu="return false;" ondragstart="return false;" id="C39_W133_V136_thtmlb_button_27">
  ::before  
  <img class="th-bt-img" src="/SAP/BC/BSP/SAP/thtmlb_styles/sap_skins/belize/images/1x1.png">  
  <span class="th-bt-span"><b class="th-bt-b">Edit</b></span>  
  <b class="th-bt-b">Edit</b>
</a>

I added the missing end A tag to your HTML. Please update it if it's incomplete or incorrect. — JeffC, Sep 09 '20 at 22:18
@GuillermoBastian `::before` will never be within `<...>` so I have removed them. — undetected Selenium, Sep 09 '20 at 22:59

JeffC · Answer 1 · 2020-09-10T20:54:10.623

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In order to locate an element using text contained in an element, the only option is to use XPath.

//a[./b[.='Edit']]
^ Start at the top of the document and find an A tag
   ^ ...that has a descendant B tag
        ^ ...that contains the text 'Edit'

edited Sep 10 '20 at 20:54

answered Sep 09 '20 at 22:23

JeffC

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '20 at 23:01

To locate the <a> element which have a descended <span> with text as Edit you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using XPATH:

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//a[contains(@id, 'thtmlb_button')][.//b[text()='Edit']]")))

Note : You have to add the following imports :

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

Xpath Selenium- How to locate a element by the sub text

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