XPath Cheatsheet for Text#

When you need just the content of a node, use the text() function:

//h1/text()

Exact Matching#

Target all <button> nodes with a specific text content:

//button[text()='some text']

Get all <p> nodes that start with placeholder text using the starts-with() function:

//p[starts-with(text(), 'Lorem ipsum')]

Ensure that all paragraphs end with a dot by getting all <p> nodes and combining the not() and ends-with() functions:

`//p[not(ends-with(text(), '.'))]`

Non-Exact Matching#

Get all <h2> header nodes that contains some text using the contains() function:

//h2[contains(text(), 'some text')]

Get all submit buttons using the normalize-space() function that strips leading and trailing whitespace, including sequences of whitespace characters replaced with a single space. This is useful to target buttons with different text content, yet the same meaning:

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