CSS equivalent of XPath text()

[sunny sachdeva]

HI,

Wondering how to convert below XPAth to CSS

XPATH:-  //span[text()='Calendar']

I tried span:contains('Calendar') but this throws DOM Exception 12

Let me know how can we write this in CSS.

Thanks

Sunny

[Jim Evans]

Short answer is you can't. The longer and more detailed answer can be found in my reply to you on the WebDriver mailing list.

[Arran]

Why does it need to be done in CSS? There is no contains selector in CSS (in any version), which I suspect is what Jim is referring to above.

[Ripon Al Wasim]

Hello,

The corresponding CSS path is:  span:contains(^Calendar$)

You can follow the steps below for details how to convert xpath into csspath by using  http://cssify.appspot.com/  this site.

1. Go to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11097861/writing-xpah-and-css-locator-path-for-selenium-automated-test

2. See my answer at the bottom of page

br,

Ripon

skype: ripon_sky

Sunny

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[Jim Evans]

tl;dr: The :contains() pseudoselector doesn't exist. If you're using it, stop. If you're thinking of recommending someone else use it, don't.

Ripon, I don't normally call out individuals here, but this is so important that it bears repeating. I'm even going to shout for emphasis. THERE IS NO %*#&$@ :CONTAINS PSEUDOSELECTOR!!! To claim there is shows either a willful ignorance of the CSS selector standard; or a misguided belief that jQuery, and by extension Sizzle, is so ubiquitous that its bastardizations can be used without consideration that they are not, in fact, actually implemented by any browser's native CSS selector engine.

[SantoshSarma]

By injecting Sizzle css selector library you can achieve that

see below post 

http://selenium.polteq.com/en/injecting-the-sizzle-css-selector-library/

Regards,

SantoshSarma

[Jim Evans]

Injecting Sizzle seems like a very long way to go just to get a pseudoselector that you can already duplicate the functionality of with a simple XPath statement. I rarely recommend XPath over CSS selectors for performance reason; this is my line exception to that rule. But if you're relying on finding the element by its text content, performance is the least of your worries anyway.

[Tarun Kumar]

On a tangential note. How good is it to inject (jquery etc) library to application under test?

Should not test tool be testing application non intrusively?