Xpath get element above

Question

suppose I have this structure:

<div class="a" attribute="foo">
    <div class="b">
        <span>Text Example</span>
    </div>
</div>

In xpath, I would like to retrieve the value of the attribute "attribute" given I have the text inside: Text Example

If I use this xpath:

.//*[@class='a']//*[text()='Text Example']

It returns the element span, but I need the div.a, because I need to get the value of the attribute through Selenium WebDriver

Answer 1

Hey there are lot of ways by which you can figure it out.

So lets say Text Example is given, you can identify it using this text:-

//span[text()='Text Example']/../..         --> If you know its 2 level up

OR

//span[text()='Text Example']/ancestor::div[@class='a']  --> If you don't know how many level up this `div` is

Above 2 xpaths can be used if you only want to identify the element using Text Example, if you don't want to iterate through this text. There are simple ways to identify it directly:-

//div[@class='a']