selenium following element python

Question

I'm using selenium with python. I have some element that is a checkbox, and I want to click on it. My problem is with getting that element, I have only the text In my case <td>xxxxx</td> and I want to get the element above it (the previous element, he is not is father, they are only adjacent) I tried this:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@type='checkbox']/following::td[text()='xxxxx']").click()

but it didn't work.

Answer 1

You can navigate from td with following xpath

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//td[text()='xxxxx']/preceding-sibling::td[1]/input[@type='checkbox']").click()

or you can try with parent tag and navigate nth td which has input tag like

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//td[text()='xxxxx']/parent::tr/td[1]/input[@type='checkbox']").click()