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’]”) Answer You can always use contains instead of equals, as following: To make it case-insensitive you can use translate function, as following: Case-insensitive contains Xpath is taken