Selenium, xpath to match a table row containing multiple elements

Question

I'm trying to find a Selenium/PHP XPath for matching a table row that contains multiple elements (text, and form elements)

example:

<table class="foo">
  <tr>
    <td>Car</td><td>123</td><td><input type="submit" name="s1" value="go"></td>
  </tr>
</table>

This works for a single text element:

$this->isElementPresent( "//table/tbody/tr/td[contains(text(), 'Car')]" );

while this does NOT (omitting the /td locator):

$this->isElementPresent( "//table/tbody/tr[contains(text(), 'Car')]" );

and thus, this obviously won't work either for multiple elements:

$this->isElementPresent( "//table/tbody/tr[contains(text(), 'Car')][contains(text(), '123')]" );

Another way to do this would be with getTable( "xpath=//table[@class='foo'].x.y") for each and every row x, column y. Cumbersome, but it worked... mostly. It does NOT return the tag !? It will return an empty string for that cell :(

Any ideas ? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This XPath expression:

/html/body/table[descendat::td[contains(.,'Car')]]

Note: If you know your schema, don't use a starting // operator. Use string value instead of text node (this way you get the concatenation of all descendant text nodes).

Answer 2

you might want to use

//td[contains,'Car'] and td[contains,'123']/ancestor::tr

that will select the tr that contains td which matches the two contains arguments

Try to use View Xpath Plugin in firefox, very useful plugin.

Learn more about Axes in Xpath: http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_axes.asp