java - Extract text which contains <br> tag with Selenium Webdriver

Question

I'm trying to extract text from following HTML code :

<div>
   "blabla"
   <br>
   "blublu"
   <br>
   "blibli"
</div>

I'm using getAttribute method because the text can be hidden (so getText() can possibly return null) :

String text = driver.findElement(By.tagName("div")).getAttribute("textContent");
System.out.println(text);

the expected result is

blabla\nblublu\nblibli

however I get

blablablublublibli

Answer 1

You can use getText() method on the WebElement

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div")).getText()

Output would be something like:-

"blabla"
"blublu"
"blibli"

Answer 2

Problem resolved by using

String text = driver.findElement(By.tagName("div")).getAttribute("innerText");

and not

String text = driver.findElement(By.tagName("div")).getAttribute("textContent");