Consider the example element below: <span>Telerik Test Studio</span> This logic will locate the element: tagname=span,textcontent=~Telerik This will not and cause it to time out and fail: tagname=span,textcontent=~Telerik Test Studio This will pass if logic was recorded as such by default, but fail if the space characters were manually typed out tagname=span,textcontent=~Telerik Test Studio