Xpath Expression to match text correctly, but trim leading and trailing whitespace

Question

I need an xpath expression for my selenium tests to get this element:

<td class="label">        Order Date      </td>

but not this one:

<td class="label">    Order Dates  </td>

I tried these two:

"//*[text() = 'Order Date']"
"//*[text()[contains(.,'Order Date')]]"

But the exact match expression doesn't take the whitespace into account, and the contains expression also targets the element with an s.

Answer 1

You need to use the XPath's normalize-space() as in //td[normalize-space()="Order Date"]