selenium - Angular page, XPath not finding text

Question

We have an Angular page that generates a lot of comment blocks into the page. When trying to find text using xPath (for Selenium) it cannot find it.

<li>
   <span class="os">Order status is </span>
   Sent 
   <span class="ng-star-inserted"> (<!----><!---->Awaiting confirmation) </span><!---->
</li>

//*[text()=' ('] finds it, but //*[text()='Awaiting confirmation'] or //*[.,'Awaiting confirmation'] or //*[contains(text(),'Awaiting confirmation')] do not.

We need to make sure "Sent (Awaiting confirmation)" or at least "Awaiting confirmation" is on the page.

Any advice would be appreciated

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65946926/angular-page-xpath-not-finding-text

Answer 1

//*[text()[contains(.,"Awaiting confirmation")]]

Try this , this will search for element that contains the text Awaiting confirmation as you want (In your case span