How to locate an element with respect to another element identified through innerText using xpath

Question

I've a structure like this:

<ul> 
 <div class="someclass"> 
  <li>  
    <img/> 
    <img/>
    <a> <span> Text 1 </span> <a/>
  </li>
  <li>  
    <img/> 
    <img/>
    <a> <span> Text 2 </span> <a/>
  </li>
 </div>
<ul/>

I want to search "Text 2" and get back to 1st "<img />" of that and I can't proceed further than this //div[@class='someclass']/li//following-sibling::a/span[text()='Text 2']

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-22T06:53:16.447

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To search for the element with text as Text 2 and referencing it to locate the first <img/> tag you can use the following xpath based solution:

xpath:

"//div[@class='someclass']//li//a/span[normalize-space()='Text 2']//preceding::img[2]"

edited Feb 22 '20 at 06:53

answered Feb 21 '20 at 11:09

undetected Selenium

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I want to get to of the list which contains "Text 2". – Abhinav Kushagra Feb 21 '20 at 11:14
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@AbhinavKushagra Checkout the updated answer and let me know the status. – undetected Selenium Feb 21 '20 at 11:23
Also, I would like to remind that we don't know about which list item contains "Text 2". – Abhinav Kushagra Feb 21 '20 at 11:23

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 21 '20 at 10:48

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You can get to the "Text 2" and then you can use preceding with a[1] to get the "Text 1".
Your xpath should be like:

//a[contains(text(),'Text 2')]//preceding::a[1]

answered Feb 21 '20 at 10:48

Sameer Arora

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but I need to find the list first without index which contains "Text 2". – Abhinav Kushagra Feb 21 '20 at 10:56

How to locate an element with respect to another element identified through innerText using xpath

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