Question

I have a form with checkboxes, each with a span with some text describing the selection, for isntance:

          <input name="people[]" value="953580619" type="checkbox">
          <span>Fake person 1</span>

I want to select those checkboxes which have a following span with the word “Fake” appearing in them. How do I select only these checkboxes which have a following::span with the word Fake in them, and no other?

Answer 1

With XPath (since this question had an XPath tag)

//input[following::span[1][contains(., 'Fake')]]

This selects <input> elements which are directly followed by <span> that contains the string “Fake”. Replace the // in that XPath expression with steps matching your document structure, if possible.