Locate an an element by the value of the precedent element - Selenium

Question

I want to locate the input based on the value of the previous td --> 143753 taking in consideration that i will put the value 143753 in a variable, so i can choose any row i want to select.

<td style="width:11%;">143753</td>
<td align="right" style="width:10%;">
    <input type="submit" name="ctl00$cphContent$wucOrderPos$gvPOSSelection$ctl03$btnSelectPos" value="Select" id="cphContent_wucOrderPos_gvPOSSelection_btnSelectPos_1" class="button">
</td>

This screenshot will make what I want to do more clear:

My Attempt:

//*[@value="Select"]//preceding-sibling::td[@text()='143753']

Answer 1

Only contains(text(),'') worked for me for this case

//td[contains(text(),'174013')]/following-sibling::td/input[@value="Select"]

Answer 2

To locate the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibilityOfElementLocated() and you can use the following xpath based Locator Strategy:

• Java solution:

  WebElement element = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//td[text()='143753']//following-sibling::td[1]/input[@class='button' and @value='Select']")));
  

• Python solution:

  element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//td[text()='143753']//following-sibling::td[1]/input[@class='button' and @value='Select']")))
  

• Note (Python solution) : You have to add the following imports :

  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
  

Answer 3

I hope you want to get the input field value if the td value is '143753':

//td[text()='143753']/following-sibling::td/input[@value="Select"]

so here we will first check for td with the value you mentioned , then will check if it has any following sibbling with tag td, then we will see if it has and immediate child element input with value as 'select'