Question

How can I check if the text I’m looking for exists in this html ?

<ul>
   <li class="texto">
      Warning, invalid login. The login <b> rafael1983 </ b> is already associated with a registered user.
   </li>
</ul>

I’m doing this xpath expression to retrieve the text:

//*[contains(child::text(), 'Warning, invalid login. The login rafael1983 is already associated with a registered user.')]

however the “rafael1983” is within the <b> tag, so that expression does not work, anyone know how to solve this?

Answer 1

Try

//*[contains(normalize-space(.), 'Warning, invalid login. The login rafael1983 is already associated with a registered user.')]  

or:

//li[contains(normalize-space(.), 'Warning, invalid login. The login rafael1983 is already associated with a registered user.')]  

depending on exactly which element you want to match.

It seems a bit strange to me that you want to check for that specific string, including the login name – I would expect that you are interested in ANY ‘Invalid login’ message.