XPath For Returning the Column Index

The following expression returns the position (column index) of the first cell containing the desired text:

count(/html/body/table/tr/td[.='Something'][1]/preceding-sibling::td) + 1

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You can get the column index by using selenium.getXpathCount('/html/body/table/tbody/tr/td') and then iterating over the range with selenium.getText('xpath=(/html/body/table/tbody/tr/td)[' + i + ']') until it returns "Something". Remember to count from 1 to n, not 0 to n-1 - XPath counts from 1, not from 0 like many programming languages.

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Use:

/html/body/table/tr/td[text() = 'Something']

For XML:

<html>    <body>      <table>       <tr>      <td>Something Else</td>      <td>Something</td>    </tr>    <tr></tr>  </table></body></html>

it selects 2nd td element.

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XPath For Returning the Column Index

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