Finding sibling of found element using selenium

Question

I've got a field with a date in it that's identified by a code that's shown in the div previous to it.

<div class="fcode">
    <div class="fcode_n">(123)</div> 
    <div class="fcodeText">Date</div>
</div>
<div class="text">09.01.2020</div>

All the class names are generic and appear many times, but I can find the div class containing the code I'm after (123) by using

element = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//div[contains(text(),'151')]")

and can find the parent using

parent = element.find_element_by_xpath("..")

But I'm not stuck on how to find the date in the next element (which is what I'm after). The next element is , I suppose, the following sibling of the parent. There is a 'following_sibling' method like that gets you the sibling of something in your xpath, like this:

browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[contains(text(),'(123)')]/following-sibling::div")

but that of course gets me the fcodeText element, not what I'm after - I blv. I need something in the form of

parent.find_element_by_xpath("following_sibling") 

since I'm searching based on an element and not searching the whole document for the sibling following a given bit of text. I don't seem to find any docs on the use of ".." for finding a parent, but if I could it might have info on an analogous method for sibling instead of parent.

Answer 1

I think you can use parent:

//div[contains(text(),'(123)')]/parent::div/following-sibling::div

Answer 2

In any automation project, correct selection of locators makes your automation framework more efficient. Xpath is one of the techniques commonly used in Selenium which enables easy, efficient and reliable automation. It allows tester to navigate through XML structure of any document. We can create xpaths specific to requirement which is a good practice followed often by most of the professional software testing services companies.

As mentioned in your case, where we need to find the date value using following-sibling parent relationship, below mentioned pattern will provide you required results - //div[text()='(123)']/../following-sibling::div/div

In generic, following-sibling can be written as - //tagname[@attribute='value']//following-sibling::tagname

This will select all nodes that have same parent as current node and also appears after it.