How to create case insensitive xpath in Selenium Java-CodePudding

I have created below XPath but it is not working as expected.

I am checking text in the cell of a html table and I want a particular cell to be matched.

I have created below XPath but it is not working.

*//table[@id="customerPortalTable"]//tbody//tr[td[ contains(translate(text(), "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"), "{0}") ]]

{0} - This is the place holder for value to search

I want to match below values

Test Account or TEST ACCOUNT or Test ACCOUNT

<td >Test Account</td>
<td >Test ACCOUNT</td>
<td >TEST ACCOUNT</td>

CodePudding user response：

To create the case insensitive xpath you can use the following solution:

"//table[@id="customerPortalTable"]//tbody//tr[.//td[contains(translate(., 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'), '{}')]]".format(placeholder)

Effectively, your line of code will be:

placeholder= "Test Account"
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//table[@id="customerPortalTable"]//tbody//tr[.//td[contains(translate(., 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'), '{}')]]".format(placeholder)));

References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

How to find elements through text ignoring the case using Selenium and Xpath

CodePudding user response：

Generally your XPath looks ok to me. Maybe the issue is connected with whether you search uppercase or lowercase, for example these both are returning the three td nodes:

 //td[contains(translate(text(), 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'), 'TEST ACCOUNT')]
 
 //td[contains(translate(text(), 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'), 'test account')]