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I am trying to locate a Button with a span text. I already tried it with the class but the class is used 6 times.

HTML:

<a href="#" class="btn-orange btn-border" ng-click="selectWorld(w.id)"> <span class="text world ng-binding">Krak des Chevaliers</span> </a>

C#:

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("(//a[span/text()='Krak des Chevaliers'])")).Click();

It can't find the Object. Please help :)

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    While I do not understand why your expression does not work, you could give a try to locate the span first and then get back to its parent element like this: //a/span[text()='Krak des Chevaliers']/.. Dec 8, 2018 at 19:42
  • It still won't work. I also tried xpath (absolute and relative) and it also didn't work.
    – MP9
    Dec 9, 2018 at 10:52
  • What about this expression: //*[text()='Krak des Chevaliers']/..? Dec 9, 2018 at 16:49

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Try this: By.xpath(“//*[contains(@class,’btn-orange’) and

.//*[contains(.,’Krak des Chevaliers’)]]”)

It’s probably worth opening the page manually and experimenting by opening the dev tools, hitting ctrl+F and pasting your attempt. No point getting selenium to spin up and fire all the other steps while you’re having locator troubles - if you can find it in the dev tools with that XPath but not in the test then it might be an unrelated timing issue

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  • Thanks :) I already installed Chrompath and copied the xpath from there.
    – MP9
    Dec 15, 2018 at 12:36

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