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Hi I'm kind of new to selenium, so please bear with me if the question is too basic. I wanna access a date picker element and choose a specific date. I am trying to access the span element using both class and text inside. I get an error of invalid string. Is the syntax below correct?

_driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("span[class='xxx'][contains(text(),'xx')]"))
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I think contains() is deprecated...edit: yes it is, read: w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#content-selectors –  stackErr Jun 7 '13 at 19:34
    
If you could post here your HTML element, then we could provide the exact CSS selector. –  LINGS Jun 7 '13 at 19:57

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Looking at this cheatsheet

https://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/xpath,-css,-dom-and-selenium-the-rosetta-stone/

I think it might be more like

_driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("span.CCC:contains('TTT')"));

where CCC is your class name and TTT is the text your looking for.

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Thanks for your help. I got it working. –  Charan Jun 7 '13 at 21:08

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