XPath functions (contains, starts-with) in Selenium Java - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to find an element whose text contains 'Submit'.

Selenium Java

WebElement button = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[[1](text(), 'Submit')]");

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Astarts-with(text(),

Btext()=

Ccontains(text(),

Dends-with(text(),

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Common Mistakes

Using 'starts-with' instead of 'contains' when searching for substring anywhere.

Using 'text()=' which looks for exact match.

The contains() function checks if the text contains the given substring.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to find an element whose id starts with 'user_'.

Selenium Java

WebElement input = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[[1](@id, 'user_')]");

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Astarts-with

Bcontains

Cends-with

Dequals

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'contains' which matches anywhere, not just start.

Using 'ends-with' which is not supported in XPath 1.0.

The starts-with() function checks if the attribute value begins with the given string.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the XPath expression to find a link whose href contains 'login'.

Selenium Java

WebElement link = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[[1](@href, 'login')]");

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Acontains

Bstart-with

Cstarts-with

Dcontain

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Misspelling 'starts-with' as 'start-with'.

Using 'contain' which is not a valid XPath function.

The correct function name is starts-with() or contains(). Here, to check if href contains 'login', use contains(). The option 'start-with' is misspelled, 'contain' is invalid.

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hard

Fill both blanks to find a div element whose class starts with 'alert' and contains 'error'.

Selenium Java

WebElement alertDiv = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[[1](@class, 'alert') and [2](@class, 'error')]");

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Astarts-with

Bequals

Ccontains

Dends-with

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'equals' which requires exact match.

Using 'ends-with' which is not supported in XPath 1.0.

Use starts-with() to check the class starts with 'alert' and contains() to check it contains 'error'.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to create a map of elements with keys as uppercase tag names and values as text, filtering only those whose text starts with 'Test'.

Selenium Java

Map<String, String> elementsMap = elements.stream()
  .filter(e -> e.getText().[1]("Test"))
  .collect(Collectors.toMap(e -> e.getTagName().[2](), e -> e.[3]()));

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AstartsWith

BtoUpperCase

CgetText

Dcontains

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'contains' instead of 'startsWith' for filtering.

Using 'getText' incorrectly on the key instead of value.

Use startsWith to filter text starting with 'Test', toUpperCase to convert tag names to uppercase, and getText to get element text.