How to click on the class which contains particular text using Selenium

Question

<h3 _ngcontent-ydk-c51="" matline="" class="mat-line">Text1</h3>

<h3 _ngcontent-ydk-c51="" matline="" class="mat-line">Text2</h3>

There are many links with class ="mat-line", but i want to click on link which contains Text1, how to do it ?

Answer 1

To click on the element with text as Text1 you need to induce WebDriverWait for the elementToBeClickable() (Java) / element_to_be_clickable() (Python) and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using Java and xpath:

  new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//h3[@class='mat-line' and text()='Text1']"))).click();
  

• Using Python and XPATH:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//h3[@class='mat-line' and contains(., 'Text1')]"))).click()
  

• Note: Using Python client 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
  

Answer 2

To get an h3 class of mat-line with text Text1 try the following xpath.

//h3[contains(text(), "Text1") and @class="mat-line"]

Answer 3

Found these two xpath working for Selenium with C#

"//h3[contains(text(),'Text1')]"

"//*[@class='mat-line'][.='Text1']"