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Selenium – How to find an element by part of the placeholder value?

Is there any way to find an element by a part of the placeholder value? And ideally, case insensitive.

<input id="id-9" placeholder="some TEXT">

Search by the following function doesn’t work

browser.find_element(by=By.XPATH, value="//input[@placeholder='some te']")

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Answer

You can always use contains instead of equals, as following:

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To make it case-insensitive you can use translate function, as following:

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Case-insensitive contains Xpath is taken from this question

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