Trying to return the text value of a class

Question

I am trying to return the text value, "My account" which is also a link.

I need to check the string to to prove i have logged into a website or not.

I have tried all the usual methods (xpath, by css , by href) but without success.. I am clearly doing something wrong.

can someone help me out with this ?

Hopefully the html image will show what i am trying to achieve. (click on code to display)

here is the code i am using to log into a site, when i login, the text "My account" appears as a href. I want to then return the href text to write to a spreadsheet.

See code snippet and some of the methods i have tried to return the href text string (i have tried many more .. but deleted them now as the didnt work)

Also see the result code.

    WebElement element_search1 = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='login']"));
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='login']")).click();

  WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20);
  wait.until(ExpectedConditions.titleContains("Login - mysite.com"));;

    WebElement element_search2 = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='subscriber_email']"));
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='subscriber_email']"));
    element_search2.clear();
    element_search2.sendKeys("email@email.com");
    element_search2.sendKeys(Keys.TAB);

// find and enter password
WebElement element_search3 = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='subscriber_password']"));
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='subscriber_password']"));
element_search3.clear();
element_search3.sendKeys("password");    
driver.findElement(By.name("commit")).click();

 System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.linkText("My account")).getAttribute("class"));
 System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.linkText("My account")).getText());

Result

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"link text","selector":"My account"}

it fails on : System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.linkText("My account")).getAttribute("class"))

Answer 1

Here is the Answer to your Question:

To retrive the text value of a class "user-info" ie My account you can use the following lines of code:

String my_account = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//nav[@class='main-top-nav']//a[@class='user-info' and contains(@href,'/home/manage_account')]")).getAttribute("innerHTML");
System.out.println(my_account);

Let me know if this Answers your Question.