如何通过部分 XPath 定位元素

Question

Trying to locate a text input box by its Xpath which dynamically changes some of the last elements every time the page is loaded.

This is the HTML for it.

<input type="text" value="" name="client[phones_attributes][1654091616613][number]" id="client_phones_attributes_1654091616613_number" class="placeholderField-input">

It's XPath is //*[@id="client_phones_attributes_1654091616613_number"]

The numbers change every load. I tried locating it by using this line but it didn't find it.

search = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(@id, 'client_phones_attributes_')]")

Answer 1

you need to search as:

on last versions of selenium:

search = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//input[contains(@id, "client_phones_attributes_")]')

on your version

search = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[contains(@id, 'client_phones_attributes_')]")