Question

I need to find an element in selenium 2 and I know that the link i’m looking for contains some defined text that I got in a varible. So this is how the link is:

<a id="ctl00_content_list_gvOtherSchemas_ctl02_lbViewSchema"
  href="javascript:WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(new
   WebForm_PostBackOptions(&quot;ctl00$content$list$gvOtherSchemas$ctl02
     $lbViewSchema&quot;, &quot;&quot;, false, &quot;&quot;,
     &quot;https://test/page.aspx?_InfoPath_Sentinel=1&amp;
   case=2011-015196&amp;name=MyCase&amp;version=2&amp;p=PPC1&amp;cc=ANSOEG&amp;
   py=2011&amp;rn=CR274&amp;c=0&amp;st=DRAFT&amp;oo=1&amp;sc=SC001&amp;hln=&amp;
   tl=31-12-2011 23:59:59&amp;sa=&amp;sai=&amp;san=&quot;, false, true))"
>MyCase</a>

And I want to look for the text: “case=2011-015196” by an xpath expression.

Answer 1

A more specific expression that looks for the a element whose href attribute contains the target string:

//a[contains(@href, '2011-015196')]

Or, more specifically:

//a[contains(@href, 'case=2011-015196')]