How to use apostrophe (') in xpath while finding element using webdriver?

Question

I need to use apostrophe (\') in my xpath expression which i need to use in finding elements using webdriver

i need to use below Xpath expression

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Answer 1

The Escape character usage does not serve the purpose. I tried the concatenation function and it worked like a charm. Please see the below xpath.

tag: li Manager of Workflow Initiator's Manager /li

Concatenate function and split the string as –

concat('Manager of Workflow Initiator',"'",'s Manager')

Single quote is kept in double quote while other characters are kept in single quotes..

So XPath looks as –

//li[.=concat('Manager of Workflow Initiator',"'",'s Manager')]

Answer 2

if the above solution doesn't work then use the below solution using escape sequence.

xpath: //li[.=\"Manager of Workflow Initiator's Manager\"]

Here we are treating the whole text as a string using the escape character

Answer 3

Use the xpath as shown below:

driver.findElements(By.xpath("//input[contains(@text,\"WE'd\")]"));

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

You have to use double-quotes as your XPath string literal delimiter, since XPath 1.0 doesn't provide a way of escaping quotes. In addition to that, you can escape the double-quotes in Java, to avoid it from conflicting with your Java string delimiter, which also use double-quotes :

driver.findelements(By.xpath("//input[@text=\"WE'd like to hear from you\"]"))

Answer 5

I Encountered a similar situation where I need to write an xpath for an element shown below:

Element:

<img src="webwb/pzspacer.gif!!.gif" class="inactvIcon" data-ctl="["DatePicker"]" style="cursor:pointer;">

I was able to grep the element using below Xpath, where I used the backslash to escape the characters [ and ".

Xpath : //img[@data-ctl='\[\"DatePicker\"\]']

Hope this helps.