Unable to extract the text using gettext in Selenium WebDriver and also unable to click it

Question

I am not able to find the gettext of the below code in the Selenium WebDriver.

<a id="551" class="blueTextNormal1 spc" onclick="sPh(this,'079');return false;" title="079">Country</a>

I want to get the value of Country. I tried using the xpath :

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='551']").getText())

but it is not returning any value. When I tried with

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='551']")).getAttribute("title"))

I am getting the value as "079".

How can I to proceed?

Answer 1

It depends on the code as well. Give a try with the below code:

Instead of getText() , please use getAttribute("innerHTML") which will then return what you are looking for, including any HTML that is invisible.

<div class="no-docs-selected">
    <p class="icon-alert">Please select a doc</p>
</div>

I was looking for Please select a doc , but I didn't succeed with getText() . But the below one worked.

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//p[@class='icon-alert']")).getAttribute("innerHTML");

Answer 2

我遇到了同样的问题，然后我将 .getText() 更新为.getAttribute("textContent")并且它起作用了。

Answer 3

It is really surprising you are able to get attribute title, but not text.

Try with

driver.findelement(By.xpath("//a[@id='551' and contains(text(),'Country')]")).isDisplayed();

or

driver.findelement(By.xpath("//a[@id='551' and text()='Country']")).isDisplayed();

Answer 4

I also had a case where getAttribute("innerHTML") worked, but not getText() . It turned out that the element was present, but it was not visible or displayed.

When I scrolled to the element first before calling getText() it worked.

    if(!element.isDisplayed()) 
        scrollIntoView(element);
    element.getText();

The scrollIntoView function is like this:

    public void scrollIntoView(WebElement element) {
        ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", element);
    }

I therefore don't need to use getAttribute("innerHTML")`.

Answer 5

Unless it is a typo while copying to Stack Overflow, you are missing a parentheses before getText. Change driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='551']").getText()) to driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='551']")).getText()

I tried the following code, and it worked perfectly for me.

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("C:\\test.html");
System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='551']")).getText());
System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*@id='551']")).getAttribute("title"));

Answer 6

使用<WebElement>.getAttribute("value")提取文本。

Answer 7

String text1 = driver.findElementByXPath("//input[@value='EFASTGTC']/../ancestor::tr[1]/scipt[1]").getAttribute("innerText"); 
        
System.out.println("Value=" + text1);

This code will work if you want text written between script tag.

Answer 8

This worked for me:

System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.id("error")).getAttribute("textContent"));

Code:

driver.get("https://login.salesforce.com/");
driver.findElement(By.id("username")).sendKeys("Hello");
driver.findElement(By.id("password")).sendKeys("Hello");
driver.findElement(By.id("Login")).click();
System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.id("error")).getAttribute("textContent"));
driver.close();

Answer 9

This worked for me. I used getAttribute("innerText") instead of getText() .

System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.id("modalError")).getAttribute("innerText"));

Answer 10

In a similar situation, this worked for me:

.getAttribute("innerHTML");
.getAttribute("innerText");
.getAttribute("outerText");