Question

Here is the code:

<li class="abc">
    <div class="abc">
         <input type="checkbox">
    </div>

    <div class="xyz">
        <div class="headline">Mongo like candy</div>
    <div>
</li>

<li class="abc">
    <div class="abc">
        <input type="checkbox">
    </div>

    <div class="xyz">
        <div class="headline">Candygram for mongo</div>
    <div>
</li>

Xpath challenge. I want locate the checkbox of the li which contains the headline “Mongo like candy” so I can select it using Selenium. In other words, how do you locate the checkbox from here:

li//div[@class='abc']//input[@type='checkbox']

but qualifying it with a different attribute within the same parent node:

li//div[@headline][contains(text(),"Mongo like candy")]

Answer 1

The basic idea is to qualify the final path with a predicate, i.e.

li[/*predicate here*/]//div[@class='abc']//input[@type='checkbox']

The predicate expresses the condition on the li that you want:

.//div[@class='headline' and contains(text(), "Mongo like candy")]

Putting them together yields:

li[.//div[@class='headline' and contains(text(), "Mongo like candy")]]//div[@class='abc']//input[@type='checkbox']