How to find the xpath for an element by text containing three dots

Question

I'm trying to find the xpath for an element that contains three dots instead of text. Once I expand the element by clicking on arrow in DOM model html it returns the text. The following xpath returns nothing unfortunately:

//button[contains(text(),'Pending')]

What's the right solution?

Prophet · Answer 1 · 2022-08-22T15:14:10.743

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The text content of that element is not a three dots but Pending (). You see the ... only because there is no room to present the text there until you expand the element. So, generally this //button[contains(text(),'Pending')] should work.
You can also try this XPath expression:

//button[contains(.,'Pending')]

It means "a button element with any attribute containing Pending value"
It is more general and should work.
To understand why //button[contains(text(),'Pending')] did not work see this post or this. There are more explanations about this.

edited Aug 22 '22 at 15:14

answered Aug 22 '22 at 14:37

Prophet

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That's interesting because the generic search works //button[contains(.,'Pending')] but by text() search does NOT //button[contains(text(),'Pending')]. Anyway thank you! – Denis S. Aug 22 '22 at 14:54
It's not a generic search. I will explain more – Prophet Aug 22 '22 at 14:56
Got it, thx! But still I wonder why //button[contains(text(),'Pending')] doesn't return any elements ? – Denis S. Aug 22 '22 at 15:08
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See the updated post with links. You can google more :) – Prophet Aug 22 '22 at 15:14

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