Selenium XPath logical AND joining multiple contains() filters?

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I'm trying to locate the below element using Selenium:

<a class="ABC" href="#" data-test-id="XXX|YYY|ZZZ">

There are multiple elements on the page with "ABC", "XXX", "YYY" and "ZZZ", but my key words are "ABC" and "ZZZ". So in order to target this element precisely, I need to write something like:

//input[@class="ABC"] AND //*[contains(@data-test-id,'ZZZ')]")

Is there a way to write this in a single XPath?

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2 Answers

Use either Following Xpath Or css selector.

Xpath:

//a[@class='ABC' and contains(@data-test-id,'ZZZ')]

Css Selector:

a.ABC[data-test-id*='ZZZ']
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You can write compound predicates in XPath as follows:

//a[@class='ABC' and contains(@data-test-id,'ZZZ')]

or

//a[@class='ABC'][contains(@data-test-id,'ZZZ')]

Be careful with contains() as its substring testing can yield false positives: ZZZ is also a substring of ZZZZ, for example. This more elaborate test can avoid the problem for delimited values such as you have with |:

//a[@class='ABC'][contains(concat('|',@data-test-id,'|'), '|ZZZ|')]
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