Using XPath wildcards in attributes in Selenium WebDriver

Question

I want to use Wildcards in my attributes. For example, this is my regular XPath:

//input[@id=\'activation:j_idt84:voId:1\']`

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Answer 1

Unfortunately there's no string wildcards in XPath. However you can use multiple contains() and starts-with() to filter things like this.

//input[starts-with(@id, 'activation:') and contains(@id, ':voId:1')]

Also, this answer could be useful too: selenium: Is it possible to use the regexp in selenium locators

Answer 2

You can use string wildcards using the matches function which is available in XPath 2.0:

//input[matches(@id, 'activation:.*:voId:1')]