Find div element by multiple class names

Question

<div class="value test" /> I'd like to identify that web element. It only has this two classes defined. I cannot do the following as className does not take a space separated value. What are alternatives?

@FindBy(className = "value test")
@CacheLookup
private WebElement test;

Answer 1

I don't think Barak manos's answer has fully explained it.

Imagine we have few elements as the followings:

1. <div class="value test"></div>
2. <div class="value test "></div>
3. <div class="first value test last"></div>
4. <div class="test value"></div>

How XPath matches

• Match only 1 (exact match), barak's answer

  driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='value test']"));
  

• Match 1, 2 and 3 (match class contains value test, class order matters)

  driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[contains(@class, 'value test')]"));
  

• Match 1, 2, 3 and 4 (as long as elements have class value and test)

  driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[contains(@class, 'value') and contains(@class, 'test')]"));
  

Also, in cases like this, Css Selector is always in favor of XPath (fast, concise, native).

• Match 1

  driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div[class='value test']"));
  

• Match 1, 2 and 3

  driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div[class*='value test']"));
  

• Match 1, 2, 3 and 4

  driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.value.test"));

Hope this helps!

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