XPath get element with text in child element

Question

I would like to match a <button> element with a certain text, which is sometimes closed in another element within the button, eg.:

<div @class="buttonset"> 
  <button>Close</button>
</div>

<div @class="buttonset"> 
  <button>
    <span>Close</span>
  </button>
</div>

The xpath query //div[@class='modal-buttonset']/button[text()='Cancel'] gives me only result from the highest level.

How to match the text on all levels?

Attributes in XML and HTML do not begin with @ -- your example confuses markup syntax with XPath syntax. Hopefully that's a question typo, not your actual data. — kjhughes
– kjhughes, Commented Mar 7, 2019 at 16:06

jsheeran · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-07 15:56:02Z

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Try the following:

//div/button[descendant::text()="Close"]

answered Mar 7, 2019 at 15:56

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kjhughes · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-07 16:08:15Z

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This XPath,

//button[normalize-space() = 'Close']

will select all button elements whose space-normalized string value is 'Close', regardless of any additional wrapper elements, as requested.

answered Mar 7, 2019 at 16:08

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