Get text of WebElement which contains html tags

Question

How can I get the Inner HTML of a WebElement with Selenium?

This is what I've tried so far:

WebElement divData=driver.findElement(By.id("data"));  
divData.getText();  //returns empty   
OR  
divData.getAttribute("innerHTML"); //returns empty  
OR  
String script="return arguments[0].innerHTML";  
String result=(String) ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript(script,divData);

System.out.println(""+result); //empty

Answer 1

as I see from the comment {quote}

"This is school"

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Representing the above in a tree view:

So basic webdriver method WebElement.getText() should work for any properly located element which contains the text.

So there 2 possbilities to find the text of webelement:

• I) try get text from all sublements (childs) related to the div above:

   List<WebElement> childsOfDiv =driver.findElements(By.cssSelector(#data>*)); for(WebElement iter: childsOfDiv){ System.out.println(iter.getText()); } 

• II) get elements' text by js method involving javascriptexecutor Initial step is to find locators of child elements related to div:

   String child1CSS="#data>b"; String child2CSS="#data>br"; public String getTextInvolvingJs(String cssLocator) { JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver; StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder(); stringBuilder.append("var x = $(\\""+cssLocator+"\\");"); stringBuilder.append("return x.text().toString();") ; String res= (String) js.executeScript(stringBuilder.toString()); return res; } String foundText1= getTextInvolvingJs(child1CSS); String foundText2= getTextInvolvingJs(child2CSS); 

Hope this works for you.