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In selenium I used the following XPATH to find all elements which have the word ok:

//button[(((@value='ok')) or ((@value='Ok')) or ((@value='OK')))]

What if I want to find all buttons which start with the word ok? As an example OK1 is a match.

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To find all elements which have the word ok you can modify as follows:

//button[@value='ok' or @value='Ok' or @value='OK']

and to find all elements which starts with the word ok you can use:

//button[starts-with(@value, 'ok') or starts-with(@value, 'Ok') or starts-with(@value, 'OK')]
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This is exact match :) plus I want them to start with ok
@john Checkout the updated answer and let me know the status.
Thanks I will test and accept very soon, just 2 side question, 1) I have noticed that some people use value and some use text, what's the difference? 2) Isn't there a way to do non-case sensitive search (instead of ok, OK, Ok, oK..)
You'd use starts-with(@value, 'ok') when the element is <button class="classname" value="ok">. You'd use starts-with(., 'ok') when the element is <button class="classname" value="abc">okJohn</button>
Worked like a charm thanks! but what about when I want to check exact match for: <button class="classname" value="IGNORE ME">ok</button>? do you do: //button[.='ok' or .='Ok' or .='OK']
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