Question

That’s my source I want to verify with selenium:

<tr class="myclass">
    <td class="column" style="width:50%"> Key </td>
    <td style="width:50%"> Value </td>
    <td style="width:50%"> &nbsp; </td>
</tr>

I want to verify that he word “Values” is contained there.

Following statement always returns: “Key” instead of “Values”

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//tr[td[contains(text(), 'Key')]]/td")).getText();

What am I doing wrong? How can I get the text of my xpath expression?

Answer 1

Here try this

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//tr[@class='myclass']/td[1]")).getText();

all the columns in the table are siblings. If you call them without array it will return the value of first one. Try td[2] if td[1] doesn’t work.