xpath - How to find an element which contains   using Selenium

Question

<td>By Company&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>

I need to capture xpath of the above element. I tried following alternatives, but nothing seems to be working in chrome. Can you please suggest any other option.

"//td[normalize-space(text())='By Companyu00a0']"
"//td[normalize-space(text())='By Companyu00a0u00a0']"
"//td[text()='By Companyu00a0']"
"//td[text()[normalize-space(.)='By Companyu00a0']]"
"//td[text()[normalize-space()='By Companyu00a0']]"

Answer 1

To locate the element:

<td>By Company&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>

You can use either of the following xpath:

• Using normalize-space():

  "//td[contains(normalize-space(translate(., 'u00A0u00A0', ' ')), 'By Company')]"
  

• Using text():

  "//td[text()='By Companyu00A0u00A0']"
  

• Using contains():

  "//td[contains(., 'By Companyu00A0u00A0')]"
  

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However, ideally you may like to avoid the NO-BREAK SPACE character and use either of the following solutions:

• Using starts-with():

  "//td[starts-with(., 'By Company')]"
  

• Using contains():

  "//td[contains(., 'By Company')]"
  

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Reference

You can find a relevant detailed discussion in:

• Using XPATH to search text containing  

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tl; dr

Unicode Character 'NO-BREAK SPACE' (U+00A0)