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XPath Find full HTML element ID from partial ID

Answer 1

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You can use contains to select the element:

//*[contains(@id, 'f41_txt')]

Thomas Jung 2009-12-15 13:48:15

With the way we are generating the webpage this is retrieving everything where I am just looking for the element ID.

2009-12-15 14:03:08

//*[contains(@id, 'f41_txt')] will select a list of tags you have to iterate over it and select the id attribute for each of them. You can use count(//*[contains(@id, 'f41_txt')]) to get the total number.

Thomas Jung 2009-12-15 14:16:37

Thats not the best way to do this. I have answered my own question though with the help of you answer.

2009-12-15 14:19:35

praise the lord, thanks to thomas jung i remembered that you always need the @ sign to find atrributes. duh.

esryl 2010-02-18 14:56:35

Answer 2

+1 A:

Thanks to Thomas Jung I have been able to figure this out. If I use:

//*[contains(./@id, 'f41_txt')]/@id

This will return just the ID I am looking for. Thank you for the help.

2009-12-15 14:22:16

Be aware that this can fail. You might want to use `//*[starts-with(@id, 'f41_txt')]/@id` instead.

Tomalak 2009-12-16 09:33:28

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