Question

I have played for a while writing XPath but am unable to come up with exactly what I want.

I’m trying to write XPath for link(click1 and click2 in code snippet below) based on known text(myidentity in code snippet below). Can someone take a look into and suggest possible solution?

HTML code snippet:

<div class="abc">
  <a onclick="mycontroller.goto('xx','yy'); return false;" href="#">
    <img src="images/controls/inheritance.gif"/>
  </a>
  myidentity
  <span>
    <a onclick="mycontroller.goto('xx','yy'); return false;" href="#">click1</a>
    <a onclick="mycontroller.goto('xx','yy'); return false;" href="#">click2</a>
  </span>
</div>

Answer 1

See Macro’s answer – this form should be used.

//div[text()[contains(., "myidentity")]]/span/a[2]

The following only works with one section of text in the containing div.

You’ll need to select based on the text containing your identity text.

Xpath for click1

//div[contains(text(),"myidentity")]/span/a[1]

Xpath for click2

//div[contains(text(),"myidentity")]/span/a[2]