Python selenium webdriver. Find elements with specified class name

Question

I am using Selenium to parse a page containing markup that looks a bit like this:

<html>
    <head><title>Example</title></head>
    <body>
        <div>
            <span class="Fw(500) D(ib) Fz(42px)">1</span>
            <span class="Fw(500) D(ib) Fz(42px) Green XYZ">2</span>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

I want to fetch all span elements that contain the class foobar.

I have tried both of this (the variable wd is an instance of selenium.webdriver):

elem = wd.find_elements_by_css_selector("span[class='Fw(500) D(ib) Fz(42px).']")

elem = wd.find_element_by_xpath("//span[starts-with(@class, 'Fw(500) D(ib) Fz(42px))]")

NONE OF WHICH WORK.

How can I select only the elements that start with Fw(500) D(ib) Fz(42px)

i.e. both span elements in the sample markup given.

Saurabh Gaur · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-01 13:08:22Z

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Try as below :-

elem = wd.find_elements_by_css_selector("span.foobar")

If there is space between class foo and bar then try as below :-

elem = wd.find_elements_by_css_selector("span.foo.bar")

Edited : If your class contains with non alphabetical charactor and you want to find element which starts with Fw(500) D(ib) Fz(42px) then try as below :-

elem = wd.find_elements_by_css_selector("span[class ^= 'Fw(500) D(ib) Fz(42px)']")

edited Aug 1, 2016 at 13:08

answered Aug 1, 2016 at 12:32

Saurabh Gaur

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Homunculus Reticulli Over a year ago

Sorry, I gave a bad example. My foobar actually contains spaces. I'll modify the question to reflect that

Saurabh Gaur Over a year ago

@HomunculusReticulli means foo bar??

Saurabh Gaur Over a year ago

@HomunculusReticulli ok then try updated answer with elem = wd.find_elements_by_css_selector("span.foo.bar")

Homunculus Reticulli Over a year ago

Sorry, my example was still wrong. I've corrected it and I'm using the actual class name now. Your code will not work, because my class name contains "non standard" characters - the page is generated by a React application.

Saurabh Gaur Over a year ago

@HomunculusReticulli Ok, now if you want to find element which element class start with Fw(500) D(ib) Fz(42px)...try updated answer..:)

Nander Speerstra · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-01 12:50:30Z

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Try to find elements by XPath:

//span[@class='foobar']

This should work.

edited Aug 1, 2016 at 12:50

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answered Aug 1, 2016 at 12:34

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Homunculus Reticulli Over a year ago

To be fair (to whomever marked this answer down). The question has since changed when this answer was given, and I have removed all references to foobar from my original question (see discussion with Saurabh Gaur below).

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