Question

For the life of me I do not understand why I cannot grab the td text below the th.

I have tried this (‘//th(contains(text(), “Text I Need Is After This”)]’) which does grab the actual line that it’s intended to grab, but what I’m trying to grab is the text in the td/a links below that.

appending (‘//th(contains(text(), “Text I Need Is After This”)]/td/a’) or just
(‘//th(contains(text(), “Text I Need Is After This”)]/td’) does not find any matches.

Here is the HTML

    <tr class="">
    <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">Text I Need Is After This</th>
    <td class="" style="">
    <a href="/wiki/Queens" title="Queens">Queens</a>, 
    <a href="/wiki/New_York" title="New York">New York</a>, 
    <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>
    </td>
      </tr>

Answer 1

Adding /td/a to the first statement is telling the XPath to find the child nodes of <th>, which they are not. So if you want to find the <th> node, and the <td> and <a> directly after, use the following-sibling function, like so:

//th[contains(text(), "Text I Need Is After This")]/following-sibling::td