How to select an element using text() in Selenium with Python?

Question

I am not able to select "Event" in following code using text().

<a class="atg-p-8" href="https://www.abc.com">
            <span class="atg-mr-12">... </span>
              " Event
               "
</a>

This is the Xpath that I'm using:- ( .//a/span[text() ='Event'] )

Answer 1

//a[text()[contains(.,'Event')]]

the tag have two text node so you have to use the above locator , this checks if any text node of a has Event in it

you can also use:

//a[contains(string(),'Event')]

This will convert all text node to string and then search event in it

Answer 2

You can try as following

driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[contains(text(), 'Event')]")