This may sound so simple but why there is no method to find element by its inner text without using xpath? for instance there is an element:
<button>Some Text</button>
and Selenium does not provide any methods to select it by inner text. Something like:
driver.findElement(By.innerText("Some Text");
What is the the other way to find element by inner text? I am well aware of xpath, but I can not use it because of restrictions of the project.
There is a linkText method:
driver.findElement(By.linkText("Some Text"))
You also have partialLinkText:
driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText("Partial Text"))
For examples, see how-to-locate-element-by-link-text-and-partial-link-text-locator
Edit:
As @Cajova_Houba mentioned that it works only for anchor elements <a>
Try to use methods in XPath.
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[text()='Some Text']"));
Hope this will work!
I think this works in java.
WebElement chosenElement;
List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.tagName("button"));
for(WebElement element:elements){
if(element.getText().equals("Some Text")){
chosenElement = element;
break;
}
}
It doesn't seem to be possible for every element, according to Selenium documentation. You can try to use
By.linkText("link text")
or
By.partialLinkText("partial link text")
But that works for anchor elements (<a>) only.