How to ignore a specific character in an Xpath?-CodePudding

I am tryining to find the following element in the DOM using selenium

<button>
  App\u00ADly
</button>

As you can see there is a soft hyphen character between the word Apply I am wondering if there is any way to ignore this character and make that the following Xpath works.

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

Thanks in advance.

CodePudding user response：

I believe the text \u00AD is dynamic or you want to skip. You can use contains in xPath along with and condition.

//button[contains(text(),'App') and contains(text(),'ly')]

CodePudding user response：

contains is wrongly used in lot of places. There are more xpath function such as starts-with and ends-with (xpath v2.0).

But since selenium is tagged which uses xpath v1.0 you won't be able to use ends-with

You can try something like :

//input[starts-with(text(),'App') and contains(text(),'ly')]