How to find text on web page with not-case-sensitive

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I use:
via

xpath= //*[contains(text(),“some text”)]

or this

Boolean result = WebUI.verifyTextPresent("some text", false, FailureHandling.CONTINUE_ON_FAILURE)

but it didn`t work

2

Hi,

question about your xpath, why it’s used single quotes there xpath= ‘xxxxx’?
what you are really doing, some more info would be nice to know

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https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/tutorials/detect_elements_xpath.html#deal-with-dynamically-changing-elements

4

hello,

cannot see there that xpath string is between single quotes ’ ’ as your xpath is
‘//*[contains(text(),“some text”)]’

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Hi @tod2020,
Can you try the xpath //*[contains(translate(text(), ‘ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ’, ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz’) ,“some text”)]

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it doesn’t work

7

You should use the matches() function with an ‘i’ flag:

//*[matches(text(), '(.+?)', 'i')]

where:

  • text() is the ‘attribute’ you’re checking

  • ‘(.+?)’ is a regex pattern to match

  • ‘i’ is a flag indicating case-insensitivity

Check here for more on the use of the matches() function.

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@tod2020, did you write “some text” in lower case? Actually my solution is to translate the text to lower case before checking if it contains the desired words.

9

is it Correct?

10

Unfortunately no. To reiterate what I said above:

The argument that you will need to configure for your purposes is likely the regex pattern (the ‘(.+?)’ argument). While I’m not a regex pro (in fact, I despise regex), something like this might work:

//*[matches(text(), '^some text\$', 'i')]