How to select a web element by text with Selenium WebDriver, Java

Question

I need to find the following element on the web page

<div class="b-datalist__item__addr">[email protected]</div>

I'm coding with Java for Selenium WebDriver.
Need the exact CSS selector for this element to use it with driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(the-selector).click command.
div[class='b-datalist__item__addr'] selector is not good enough since I must search according to [email protected] text that is not a link so I can't use findElement(By.linkText()) command.

Answer 1

contains(node, substring) might solve the problem, but note that if there are several elements with similar text contents, e.g.

• [email protected]

• [email protected]

• [email protected]

Predicate [contains(text(),'[email protected]')] will match all of them

In this case it's better to use starts-with(node, substring):

//div[starts-with(text(),'[email protected]')]

or fetch required element by exact text content:

//div[text()='[email protected]']

Answer 2

Css does not allow you do text based search. xpath is the only option there.

//div[contains(text(),'[email protected]')]