如何在 Selenium 上使用 XPath 定位文本上的元素？

Question

<td>
    <span class="td-title">city</span>
    <span>city</span>
    " Japan"
</td>

How to locate element on text by using XPath? I tried to use /td/text() but it showed "td/text()" is: [object Text]. It should be an element. "td/text()" is: [object Text]. It should be an element. If I use /td it will return city city Japan , but I want the only output is Japan .

I cannot use contain() or /td[text() = 'Japan'] to specific city "Japan", because I also want to find multiple different cities. If I use this functions, I'll have to manually change city's name every time.

Answer 1

If you want to select td elements that have a text() node child that is not just whitespace, you can use

/td[text()[normalize-space()]]

But if you are selecting that element and ask for its computed string value, it will concat all of the text() node descendants.

You would want to select only the immediate child text() value. It sounds like that is a common problem in Selenium: https://stackoverflow.com/a/28948550/14419