如何使用 selenium 从元素中获取文本

Question

I am trying to get text from an element and then searching for it in another place, the problem is that when I get the text using .text , I noticed that it misses if there is two spaces, and when it searches in the next page, it can't find it. So is there a way to get text as it is with spaces?

Code:

self.name = session.find_element('xpath', './/a[contains(@href, "name")]').text
self.dataBrowser.find_elements(By.XPATH, f'//tr[child::td[child::div[child::strong[text()="{self.name}"]]]]')

Answer 1

Not always the text property will actually hold the text. So, try this:

element = browser.find_element(By.CSS, 'CSS_EXPRESSION')
text = element.get_attribute('text')
if text is None or text is '':
    text = element.get_attribute('value')

If text and value both returns nothing just try reading the innnerHTML attribute.

Answer 2

It's hard to say how “text” is defined in the context of this post, as long as it is a string literal. The fact that text has space before and after it (as well as between them) makes it very difficult to “get text from an element with selenium”, but think of it this way: you know that every element has a String in its dataDict attribute. In other words, if you want to get text from an element, you need to do something like this: In other words, the following method will get the text from an element with selenium: And if you want to search for a string in another place (say, within an HTML site), you can do something like this: And then we can search for some text within HTML tags or CSS property names or whatever else we need. This way creates a bit of syntactic sugar for getting data from elements (which is also useful for getting text from HTML and JavaScript). But there are already better ways of doing things, such as using Python's pickle module directly or by using JSON serialization. I won't go into detail about how these methods work because they are used by people who have more knowledge than me on that topic but I'll just mention that those are generally easier to use and don't require knowing any particular programming language such as Python.