Selenium XPath文本搜索在substring中使用单引号

Question

My html code will be like

<td class="summaryValRt2 summaryValDetails">Appledore Engineering v Shaw's - Dan Day_220217103442</td>

I use below xpath expression to click element operation.

//*[@class='summaryValRt2 summaryValDetails'][text()='Appledore Engineering v Shaw's - Dan Day_220217103442']

result:

unable to click element due to non visibility of element

.

I checked it problem due to ' character in text [text()='Appledore Engineering v **Shaw's** - Dan Day_220217103442'] .

can any one share your thoughts?

Answer 1

In XPath 2.0, you can escape the quote with a backslash:

text()='Appledore Engineering v Shaw\'s - Dan Day_220217103442'

However, most major browsers do not support XPath 2.0 at this time. Until they do, you're limited to the XPath 1.0 spec, which does not support that escape character.

Since your string includes only single quotes, you could instead wrap the string in double quotes:

text()="Appledore Engineering v Shaw's - Dan Day_220217103442"

That will cover most cases, but it gets trickier if you're searching for a string that includes both single quotes and double quotes.

For example, suppose you are searching for the following string:

single'quote double"quote

You can achieve that using concat with the alternating quotes trick:

text()=concat("single'quote", ' double"quote')

Answer 2

Try with [text()='Appledore Engineering v Shaw\\'s - Dan Day_220217103442'] , I used escape sequence in this example.

Or you could try with unicode code for single quote, something like [text()='Appledore Engineering v Shaw\'s - Dan Day_220217103442']

Answer 3

请使用下面的xpath，它正常工作给我。

//*[@class='summaryValRt2 summaryValDetails'][text()="Appledore Engineering v Shaw's - Dan Day_220217103442"]