Get input tag element with a given text value via xpath

Question

How can I select, via xpath, all input elements in a document that have a given value typed into them.

For instance, if I go to Google and type in "hello world", how do I get all input tags that have "hello world" typed into them?

Playing around with things like below haven't paid off, since the value in the text field isn't really part of the document.

document.evaluate("//input[text() = 'hello world']", document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue

Should be pretty simple, but I'm surprisingly stuck.

Answer 1

Your x-path expression should searching for inputs that have the value attribute with 'hello world'

This is because that's where the value gets put into, not the inner text of the element.

The actual html element would look like:

<input type='text' value='hello world' />

The XPATH expression should look like:

//input[@value = 'hello world']

Answer 2

An alternative without jQuery for getting the input which contains the target text is:

//input[contains(@value, 'hello world')]

This would find the input even if the user types "hello world number 7"