[webdriver] how to do an exact match for the inner text via css selector

[shen xieyin]

we can use the syntax css=a:contains(“Inner Text”) to a text match to find the element, but it seems not to be a exact match, if I have the text "Inner Text a" "Inner Text b" "Inner Text", it will just return the 1st one. So if I want to keep the css selector for the locator type, how can I deal with that, can we do an exact match?

Thanks,

-Shen

[Jim Evans]

Please realize that the :contains pseudoclass is not part of the CSS
selectors standard, but is an extension provided by the Sizzle library
(Sizzle is the JavaScript CSS selector engine used by jQuery).
The :contains() selector will not work on all browsers unless you
first inject Sizzle. You'd be better off asking that question of the
jQuery folks.

--Jim

[shen xieyin]

oh, i did not realize that. thanks for pointing that out. My case is we have many case with selenium1 calling select(locator, option), in this method it just needs to pass a locator of the select, and then give the option label/value/index. but in selelnium2, which directly call By.cssSelector(), so here we need do a transparent way to generate all the full string of css-selector such as //select[name='abc'] option[value='ccc'], for the new API.

any idea?

2011/8/3 Jim Evans <james.h....@gmail.com>

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[Daniel Wagner-Hall]

If you're hoping for a:contains, investigate the By.linkText and
By.partialLinkText locators

If you're hoping trying to manipulate Select elements and Options in
them, look at the Select support class:
http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/support/ui/Select.html