In the HTML which you have provided:
<div>My Button</div> The text My Button is the innerHTML and have no whitespaces around it so you can easily use text() as follows:
my_element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[text()='My Button']") Note:
text()selects all text node children of the context node
Text with leading/trailing spaces
In case the relevant text containing whitespaces either in the beginning:
<div> My Button</div> or at the end:
<div>My Button </div> or at both the ends:
<div> My Button </div> In these cases you have two options:
You can use
contains()function which determines whether the first argument string contains the second argument string and returns boolean true or false as follows:my_element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[contains(., 'My Button')]")You can use
normalize-space()function which strips leading and trailing white-space from a string, replaces sequences of whitespace characters by a single space, and returns the resulting string as follows:driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[normalize-space()='My Button']]")
XPath expression for variable text
In case the text is a variable, you can use:
foo= "foo_bar" my_element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[.='" + foo + "']") 