Selenium Webdriver: Invalid Xpath with finding element using partial ID

Question

I am trying to find elements using Selenium Webdriver in Python by partial class name. I am very new to programming and tried using advice from https://intellipaat.com/community/9218/is-it-possible-to-locate-element-by-partial-id-match-in-selenium and Selenium WebDriver Finding Element by Partial Class Name

My code is as follows:

list5=driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//[contains(@id,‘partial id’)]")

Please let me know what is wrong with this code, as it says it is not a valid XPath expression. Thank you!

Try xpath as `//*[contains(@id,'partial id')]` – prakasht Sep 27 '20 at 21:53 — prakasht, Sep 27 '20 at 21:53
What is the website and are there any iframes? – Arundeep Chohan Sep 28 '20 at 03:07 — Arundeep Chohan, Sep 28 '20 at 03:07

cheshire · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-27T22:03:12.647

You are using ´ instead of ', try like this:

list5=driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//[contains(@id,'partial id')]")

And since I don't know what exactly are you looking for, you might need to add tag name (div, span, etc.) after // i.e. //div or of course //* if you want any element.

For example if you do it for the page we are currently on you could write:

//div[contains(@id,'question')]

and you would get 3 div elements which have ids: question-header, question and hot-network-questions

Selenium Webdriver: Invalid Xpath with finding element using partial ID

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