(Selenium) Trying to locate Button with Span

Question

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 :)

Answer 1

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