Selenium and xpath: finding a div with a class/id and verifying text inside

Question

I'm trying to have xpath find a div and verify that the div has a specific string of text inside.

Here's the HTML:

<div class="Caption">
  Model saved
</div>

and

<div id="alertLabel" class="gwt-HTML sfnStandardLeftMargin sfnStandardRightMargin sfnStandardTopMargin">
  Save to server successful
</div>

This is the code I'm using at the moment:

viewerHelper_.getWebDriver().findElement(By.xpath("//div[contains(@class, 'Caption' and .//text()='Model saved']"));
viewerHelper_.getWebDriver().findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='alertLabel'] and .//text()='Save to server successful']"));

Specifically:

//div[contains(@class, 'Caption' and .//text()='Model saved']
//div[@id='alertLabel'] and .//text()='Save to server successful']

Arup Rakshit · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-02 10:20:24Z

50

To verify this:-

<div class="Caption">
  Model saved
</div>

Write this -

//div[contains(@class, 'Caption') and text()='Model saved']

And to verify this:-

<div id="alertLabel" class="gwt-HTML sfnStandardLeftMargin sfnStandardRightMargin sfnStandardTopMargin">
  Save to server successful
</div>

Write this -

//div[@id='alertLabel' and text()='Save to server successful']

answered Sep 2, 2013 at 10:20

Arup Rakshit

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Siva Over a year ago

Just curious, is there a way to achieve the same objective as above using findElement(By.className("")? If so, where would the text to be verfified go? Thanks.

paul trmbrth · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-02 12:19:35Z

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To account for leading and trailing whitespace, you probably want to use normalize-space()

//div[contains(@class, 'Caption') and normalize-space(.)='Model saved']

and

//div[@id='alertLabel' and normalize-space(.)='Save to server successful']

Note that //div[contains(@class, 'Caption') and normalize-space(.//text())='Model saved'] also works.

answered Sep 2, 2013 at 12:19

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Samsul Islam · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-25 14:34:01Z

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For class and text xpath-

//div[contains(@class,'Caption') and (text(),'Model saved')]

and

For class and id xpath-

//div[contains(@class,'gwt-HTML') and @id="alertLabel"]

edited Jan 25, 2021 at 14:34

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answered Apr 25, 2017 at 13:12

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Andrejs Over a year ago

First xpath is invalid (checked with FirePath)

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