Selenium Webdriver：使用部分 ID 查找元素的 Xpath 无效

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!

Answer 1

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 // ie //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