Contains expression in Selenium using Java Language

Question

I have used two paths :

 driver.findElement(By.xpath("//tr[@id='"+variable+"']/td[5]/span")).click();

 driver.findElement(By.xpath("//tr[@id='"+variable+"']/td[5]")).click();

How can I use both using contains expression so that the first or second version will be searched.

Answer 1

Do something like this:

WebElement thingie = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//tr[contains(@id,'" + variable + "')]/td[5]"))
if (thingie.findElements(By.tagName("span")).size() != 0) {

    thingie.findElement(By.tagName("span")).click();

} else {

    thingie.click();

}

Make a starting point WebElement.

Check to see if the <span> exists. If so, click on the span version, otherwise, click the td directly.