Using Selenium Webdriver how to retrive date text

Question

With selenium webdriver I need to get the text from a div tag which has a date in it how to go with that

here is the HTML tag showing the div tag.

<div class="gridlayout-column" style="padding-left: 10px; width: calc((100% - 110px) * 0.166667 + 10px);">
    <div class="gridlayout-content">
        <label class="fieldlabel">
            <div class="fieldlabel-label">Last update</div>
            <div class="fieldlabel-content">Jul 12, 2017</div>
        </label>
    </div>
</div>

I stored created a webelement for the above and tried using

WebElement lastUpdate = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[ . = 'Last update' and //div[contains(@class, 'fieldlabel-content')]]/following-sibling::div[@class='fieldlabel-content']"));

lastUpadte.getText();

The output was --

So I another option which is this

Date expiryDate = null;
    DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM DD, YYYY");
    String dateString = lastUpdate.getText();
     try {
       expiryDate = formatter.parse(dateString);
    } 
     catch (ParseException e) {
     e.printStackTrace();
    }

Still it didn't work. I am sure I am not doing it properly so please help me in fixing this issue.

Answer 1

Try this below code to get the date

String date = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='gridlayout-content']//div[@class='fieldlabel-content']")).getText();
System.out.println(date);

OR

you can do this way.

WebElement date = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='gridlayout-content']//div[@class='fieldlabel-content']"));
String s = date.getText();
System.out.println(s);

Answer 2

I think the problem is your XPath is incorrect. You have a couple choices to fix the XPath expression.

First: Find the date element based on sibling text value 'Last update'.

WebElement lastUpdate = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[div='Last update']/*[@class='fieldlabel-content']");

Second: Find the date element by go into the sibling by text 'Last update' and then up to the parent and find the date.

WebElement lastUpdate = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[text()='Last update']/../*[@class='fieldlabel-content']");

You can get the date text by:

lastUpdate.getAttribute("innerText");

Finally, you need to change the date format to "MMM dd, yyyy" .

DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy");