Match text in table and click on it using selenium webdriver - xpath

Question

I have one table in which there is one column called "state". I have to find and click on link which matches with text "closed successful" in that column. xpath for each cell in that column is
"//*[#id='TicketID_xxxxxx']/td[7]/div
Where xxxxxx are numbers of tickets. So how can I find matching text with different xpath values and click on it using selenium webdriver. Please help.
(Optional- I have to click on that element, click on back and find next element with same matching text)

Answer 1

Hi Sanket Patel please do it like below
driver.get(yourWebPageLInk); // link to your web-table web page
// take all of the element under Column "State" inside list
List<WebElement> columVal = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//*[starts-with(#id,'TicketID_')]/td[7]/div"));
// count the size of the list to match with the size of the column state
System.out.println("Size of the contents in the column state is : " +columVal.size());
// now for matching one of the content and then performing some action please
// start a for loop
String oneVal = "closed successful";
for(int i=0;i<columVal.size();i++){
System.out.println("Content text is : " + columVal.get(i).getText());
// match the content here in the if loop
if(columVal.get(i).getText().equals(oneVal)){
// perform action
columVal.get(i).click();
}
}

Answer 2

You can use the text() method
String text = "someText";
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[contains(text(), '" + text + "')]")).click();
Or with cssSelector
String text = "someText";
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div:contains('" + text + "')")).click();

Answer 3

You can use the TableDriver extension to Selenium WebDriver for situations like this. (https://github.com/jkindwall/TableDriver.Java). It would be helpful if there was more detailed info about the table in question, however if we assume that the table has a column "link" containing the link you need to click, and we assume the id of the main table element is "tabelId" you could do it like this:
Table table = Table.create(driver.findElement(By.id("tableId"));
WebElement element = table.findCell("state=closed successful", "link").Element;
element.findElement(By.tagName("a")).Click();