How can I find elements containing a specific string by xpath in php?

Question

for an automatic test I want checkboxes of the rows containing a specific string to be checked. when I search elements by xpath in the console, it finds exactly the elements I want, but when I run the tests it checks all the checboxes, no matter if they contain that string.

I think the problem lies in the function:

public function iCheckCheckboxInRowsWith($col){

    $checkboxes = $this->getSession()->getPage()->findAll(
selector:'xpath',    
    sprintf('//table/tbody/tr[td[contains(text(), %s)]]/td/input[@type="checkbox"]',
    $col));    
    dump($checkboxes);    
    foreach( $checkboxes as $checkbox){    
        $checkbox->click();
    }

}

In terminal I see that the array $checkboxes (which I have dumped) consists of all checkboxes. How can I fix it?

Answer 1

try with following XPath. It may works.

sprintf('//table/tbody/tr/td[contains(text(), %s)]/input[@type="checkbox"]', $col)

or try with following

sprintf('//table/tbody/tr/td[contains(., %s)]/input[@type="checkbox"]', $col)

Answer 2

您可以使用：

sprintf("//table/tbody/tr/td[contains(., '" +col+ "')]/input[@type='checkbox']"));

Answer 3

尽管我在注释中声明 $col 是一个字符串，但我仍然必须将 %s 放在引号中，因此：

//table/tbody/tr/td[contains(text(), "%s")]/preceding::td[1]/input[@type="checkbox"]