Is it possible to locate element by partial id match in Selenium

Question

I am trying to locate elements with generated ids wherein some part of the ID is known; for example:

id=\"page_x002e_x0023_default-create-firstname\"
         


        

Answer 1

Work one

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(@id, 'jobs-search-box-keyword-id')]")

Not work ones, all got the same error, TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

1. driver.find_element(By.XPATH("//*[contains(@id, 'jobs-search-box-keyword-id')]")).text

2. driver.find_element(By.XPATH("//*[contains(@id, 'jobs-search-box-keyword-id')]").text).text

3. driver.find_element(By.XPATH("//*[contains(@id, 'jobs-search-box-keyword-id')]")).get_attribute("innerHTML")

4. driver.find_element(By.XPATH("//*[contains(@id, 'jobs-search-box-keyword-id')]").get_attribute("innerHTML")).get_attribute("innerHTML")

I use python 3.7.6, selenium 3.141.0