XPath how to find second element with CSS class name

Question

I have this html:

<div tabindex="0" class="ember-basic-dropdown-trigger ember-power-select-trigger ember-power-select-trigger-2568211667 category-select t-ticket-category-select-trigger">
   Building
</div>

<div tabindex="0" class="ember-basic-dropdown-trigger ember-power-select-trigger ember-power-select-trigger-6101225577 category-select t-ticket-category-select-trigger">
  Warehouse
</div>

I would like to access the text in the 2nd div that has the same CSS class name, but am not sure how to access it.

I have some XPath code like this, but this doesn't work:

//*[contains(@class, 't-ticket-category-select-trigger')]

What environment are you working in? In you're working in Python, you might want to check out the cssselect library, which converts CSS selectors to Xpath (github.com/SimonSapin/cssselect). — John Slegers
– John Slegers, Commented Jan 13, 2016 at 23:13

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-13 23:06:10Z

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Just access it by index (indexing starts with 1 in XPath):

(//*[contains(@class, 't-ticket-category-select-trigger')])[2]

Or, if it is the last one:

(//*[contains(@class, 't-ticket-category-select-trigger')])[last()]

edited Jan 13, 2016 at 23:06

answered Jan 13, 2016 at 22:37

alecxe

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2 Comments

Aaron Lelevier Over a year ago

Alecxe, I added all CSS classes for these divs to my question. I tried your answer, but can't get it to work. Is the syntax different if there are other CSS classes in the DOM element? Thank you for your help!

alecxe Over a year ago

@AronYsidoro okay, thanks, quick check - would this work: (//*[contains(@class, 't-ticket-category-select-trigger')])[2] (note the parenthesis)?

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