Selenium WebDriver Finding Element by Partial Class Name

Question

In the frame I'm working with, I have the following element:

<div class="x-grid3-cell-inner x-grid3-col-expRepCol">  New session from client IP 192.168.5.3 (ST=/CC=/C=) at VIP 192.168.5.2 Listener /Common/Tomcat (Reputation=Unknown)</div>

As well as many other similar elements. I am trying to locate this element by partial name text and click it with the following code:

String expectedText = "New session from client IP";
driver.findElement(By.className("div[class*='"+expectedText+"']")).click();

And I have also tried with cssSelector:

String expectedText = "New session from client IP";
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div[class*='"+expectedText+"']")).click();

But WebDriver keeps throwing an exception stating it's unable to locate that element. Any suggestions as to what could be the problem?

Answer 1

<div class="dd algo algo-sr Sr" data-937="5d1abd07c5a33">
<div class="dd algo algo-sr fst Sr" data-0ab="5d1abd837d907">

The above 2 are the HTML elements in yahoo search results. So if we wanna get these elements using a partial class name with selenium python, here is the solution.

# for selenium old version:
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("div[class^='dd algo algo-sr']")

# for selenium new version
driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div[class^='dd algo algo-sr']")

In the same way, we can get any elements with a partial match on any attribute values like class name, id, etc.

find elements with css selector partial match on attribute values: