Selenium C#: How to identify element without particular child element

Question

I have following elements on the page:

<span class="card-body">
    <span>No tickets</span>
    <h5 class="card-title">..</h5>
    <p class="card-text card-text-top">..</p>
    <p class="card-text">..</p>
</span>

There are several the same card-body elements in the DOM, however, I would like to identify the first one that does not contain <span>No tickets</span> child element.

What is the most correct locator which I should use, while working with selenium and C#?

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2022-07-09T11:59:25.043

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To identify the first element that does not have a decendent <span>No tickets</span> element you can use the following xpath based locator strategy:

//span[@class='card-body'][not(.//span[text()='No tickets'])]

Your effective line of code will be:

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//span[@class='card-body'][not(.//span[text()='No tickets'])]"))

Snapshot of the example:

ticket

edited Jul 09 '22 at 11:59

answered Jul 09 '22 at 11:47

undetected Selenium

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Unfortunately not. However, i figured out, that following xpath works fine: `//*[contains(@class, 'card-body') and not(span[text()='No tickets'])]` – srulom Jul 09 '22 at 11:50
Check the snapshot as a proof for the logic – undetected Selenium Jul 09 '22 at 12:00

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 09 '22 at 16:20

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//span[@class='card-body'][not(span[text()='No tickets'])]

Gets the span with class card-body that does not have span with text "No tickets".

answered Jul 09 '22 at 16:20

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Selenium C#: How to identify element without particular child element

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