通过xpath获取Webelement的文本

Question

I'm trying to get the text of webelement through xpath. Attached are the html content of the page,

I used the following code,

String v = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[1]/div[contains(@class, 'ng-scope ngRow')]//div[contains(@class, 'ngCell ng-scope col7 colt7')//"
                + "div[contains(@class, 'ngCellText ng-scope ngCellElement col7 colt7')]")).getText();

This throws the error 'The expression is not a legal expression." code: "12" nsresult: "0x805b0033 (SyntaxError)" location: ""]'.

When I downsized the search till

String v = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[1]/div[contains(@class, 'ng-scope ngRow')]")).getText();

it works and I'm getting all the text in the particular row. However, when I extend it specific to a column as shown in the 1st code, I get error.

html snippet,

<div class="ng-scope ngRow even" ng-row="" ng-class="row.alternatingRowClass()" ng-click="row.toggleSelected($event)" ng-repeat="row in renderedRows" ng-style="rowStyle(row)" style="top: 0px; height: 30px;">
<div class="ngCell ng-scope pinned col0 colt0" ng-class="col.colIndex()" ng-repeat="col in renderedColumns" ng-style="{ 'cursor': row.cursor }" ng-dblclick="loadInstance(row.getProperty('incident_number'), 'ticket')" style="cursor: default;">
<div class="ngCell ng-scope col7 colt7" ng-class="col.colIndex()" ng-repeat="col in renderedColumns" ng-style="{ 'cursor': row.cursor }" ng-dblclick="loadInstance(row.getProperty('incident_number'), 'ticket')" style="cursor: default;">
<div class="ng-isolate-scope" data-target="actions_menu" context-menu="">
<div ng-style="{ 'cursor': row.cursor }" style="cursor: default;">
<div class="ngVerticalBar ngVerticalBarVisible" ng-class="{ ngVerticalBarVisible: !$last }"/>
<div ng-cell="">
<div class="ngCellText ng-scope ngCellElement col7 colt7" ng-class="col.colIndex()" tabindex="0">
<span class="ng-binding" ng-cell-text="">Closed</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

Answer 1

Just tested it out with following results: in the pasted HTML 3 closing </div> are missing. With a minimal adjustment of your XPath, I get following result:

<div class="ngCellText ng-scope ngCellElement col7 colt7" 
 ng-class="col.colIndex()"  tabindex="0">
 <span class="ng-binding" ng-cell-text="">Closed</span>
</div>

You're just missing a ] in the first XPath, then it should work:

"//div[1]/div[contains(@class, 'ng-scope ngRow')]
//div[contains(@class, 'ngCell ng-scope  col7 colt7')//"
+ "div[contains(@class, 'ngCellText ng-scope ngCellElement col7 colt7')]")) ..

in the 2nd line the closing ] is missing, it should be:

"//div[1]/div[contains(@class, 'ng-scope ngRow')]
//div[contains(@class, 'ngCell ng-scope  col7 colt7')]//"

As I just used an XPath-Tester for checking and don't have the same setting you're working on, you should just give it a try. Hope that helps.