[🐛 Bug]: Selenium Using Css Selector with tilde signature is throwing org.openqa.selenium.InvalidSelectorException: invalid selector:

[vlaks85]

What happened?

[🐛 Bug]: Selenium Using Css Selector with tilde signature is throwing org.openqa.selenium.InvalidSelectorException: invalid selector: Below is the locator I'm using with CSS Selector but its throwing Invalid or illegal selector - div[data-testid^='Item_asin'], ~ span[data-testid^='Item_asin']

org.openqa.selenium.InvalidSelectorException: invalid selector: An invalid or illegal selector was specified (Session info: chrome=108.0.5359.124) for the locator {Using=css selector, value=div[data-testid^='Item_asin'], ~ span[data-testid^='Item_asin']}

I want use CSS selector for my use Case. Any way to handle the ~ or + to get the siblings using CSS Selector.

How can we reproduce the issue?

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import java.util.List;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/path/to/chromedriver");
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

        driver.get("http://yourwebsite.com");

        // Adjust the selector based on your HTML structure
        List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("div.lineitem-container ~ span[data-testid^='item']"));

        for (WebElement element : elements) {
            System.out.println(element.getText());
        }

        driver.quit();
    }
}

Relevant log output

org.openqa.selenium.InvalidSelectorException: invalid selector: An invalid or illegal selector was specified
  (Session info: chrome=108.0.5359.124) for the locator {Using=css selector, value=div[data-testid^='Item_asin'], ~ span[data-testid^='Item_asin']}

Operating System

Ubuntu

Selenium version

Java 11

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

108 Chrome

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

chrome=108.0.5359.124

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No response

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[titusfortner]

What version of selenium? Turn on logging and we can see which component complains.

[vlaks85]

Build info: version: '3.141.59'

[titusfortner]

We can't do anything about older versions, please try with Selenium 4.21

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