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Selenium relative xpath using starts with function: starts-with()

We use starts-with() function to identify those elements whose text value  starts with some specified value.

Syntax:

//tagname[starts-with(text(),'text value of the tag')]

Comparison between contains() and starts-with() functions considering below sample html code

<html>

</head>

<body>

<table align="center" width=90% cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" >

        <tr>

                <td>Row 1 : </td>

                <td><span>welcome to www.tools4testing.com</span></td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

                <td>Row 2 : </td>

                <td><span>you are welcome !</span></td>

        </tr>

</table>

</body>

</html>

 

Relative XPath

Matching Element

xpath=//span[starts-with(text(),'welcome')]

Row 1 Span

xpath=//span[contains(text(),'welcome')]

Both Row1 and Row 2 Span

You can write the script and test these using our Test Page

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