xpath search for divs where the id contains specific text

Question

On my HTML page I have forty divs but I only want one div

Using agility pack to search and get all the divs with Ids I use this

"//div[@id]"

BUT how do I search for divs with Ids where the id contains the text "test"

<div id="outerdivtest1></div>"

Thanks

Solution 1

Use the contains function:

//div[contains(@id,'test')]

Solution 2

I've used this with for the CSS class:

//div[@class = 'atom']

I assume it's similar with id's.

Solution 3

You can use the xpath

//div[@contains(@id,'test')]

If you want to use the first occurrence, it works fine but if it's not the first occurrence you have to go with different xpath specific to the particular element.

Comments

[Rick Johnson]

If you wanted the second occurrence of that element, the following xpath would work: (//div[@contains(@id,'test')])[2]

[Hyperion]

@contains does not have the @