Returning null element when using following and preceding XPath selector

Question

I am working on a project. In that, I am trying to find the preceding element using selenium webdriver with the use of xpath selector. I’m selecting a label using xpath but it returns the null value using below code line

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[@id='myDvId']/label/preceding-sibling::input[1])"));

 

Below is the HTML:

<div id="myDvId">

    <input type="checkbox" id="chxInputId"></input> <!-- THIS IS INPUT CHECKBOX WITH NO ID or CLASS NAME -->

    <label for="chxInputId">My Label<label>

</div>

Please help me in this

Answer 1

To identify the <input> tag with respect to the <label> tag with text as My Label you can use the following line of code :

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//div[@id='myDvId']/label[contains(.,'My Label')]//preceding::input[1])"));