How to skip a div and select all in selenium find

I'm trying to select and copy all the text in a div, except H1 tag. The text looks as shown image.

To select all content, I could do by using the below code

browser.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[@id='__next']/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div").send_keys(Keys.CONTROL   "a")  #select all

But when I try to avoid the H1 tag content, which is "Do You Have Dry Pack...", with it's corresponding div which is

"//*[@id='__next']/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/h1"

with the code like below, it's showing error

browser.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[@id='__next']/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div"[not(("//*[@id='__next']/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/h1"))]).send_keys(Keys.CONTROL   "a")  #select all

The error is

How can I overcome this?

CodePudding user response：

Firstly, you can use // to Selects nodes in the document from the current node that match the selection no matter where they are. XPath Syntax

Secondly, about your error, you define a string in JS with double quotes, but there are double quotes in your string. Therefore, you have to escape those with character \. For e.g:

browser.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[@id='__next']/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div\"[not((\"//*[@id='__next']/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/h1"))]).send_keys(Keys.CONTROL   "a")

Lastly, instead of using element's index (e.g: div[2]), you should find another way to define the unique path to that element. Element's id, class, attributes are commonly used. In case that didn't work, you can use // to reach the child nodes, then use .. to reach their parent.

CodePudding user response：

With that xpath you are getting the entire div, but when you put the "not" you are telling: "take me all the divs that hasn't a h1 inside". But you want to exclude only the h1 so you need to take the elements INSIDE THE DIV, not the div. You can do that with this xpath:

/div/*[not(self::h1)]

//*[@id='__next']/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/*[not(self::h1)]

Then in the code you have to get this as a list, not a single element.

And please, try to create more clean and less dangerous xpaths as the other answer said, something like: //*[@id='__next']//h1 it's better.