How to locate element using text() facing exception(selenium+python)?

Question

HTML

<span class="menu-text">Download App</span>

my code to locate the element

driver.find_element_by_css_selector("//span[contains(text(),'App')]")

or

driver.find_element_by_css_selector("//span[contains(.,'App')]")

when I run it, an exception reported:

selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidSelectorException: Message: Given css selector expression "//span[contains(text(),'App')]" is invalid: InvalidSelectorError: '//span[contains(text(),'App')]' is not a valid selector: "//span[contains(text(),'App')]"

Answer 1

Since your using a xpath expression, use driver.find_element_by_xpath instead

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[contains(text(),'App')]")

hope this helps