Get some text with java + selenium WebDriver

Question

I want to get only the text "Invitation sent to xxxxx" , I do not want to get what's inside the

<button class="action" data-ember-action="" data-ember-action-3995="3995">
          Visualizar perfil
 </button>

I'm getting the text this way:

String pessoapopu = driver.findElement(By.className("artdeco-toast-message")).getText();                
System.out.println(pessoapopu); 

Page structure:

<div class="artdeco-toast-inner" data-ember-action="" data-ember-action-3994="3994">
    <li-icon aria-hidden="true" type="success-pebble-icon" class="artdeco-toast-icon"><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" width="24px" height="24px" x="0" y="0" preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin meet" class="artdeco-icon"><g class="large-icon" style="fill: currentColor">
        <g id="success-pebble-icon">
          <g>
            <circle class="circle" r="9.1" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.8" cx="12" cy="12" fill="none" transform="rotate(-90 12 12)"></circle>
            <path d="M15.667,8L17,9.042l-5.316,7.36c-0.297,0.395-0.739,0.594-1.184,0.599c-0.455,0.005-0.911-0.195-1.215-0.599l-2.441-3.456l1.416-1.028l2.227,3.167L15.667,8z" fill="currentColor"></path>
            <rect style="fill:none;" width="24" height="24"></rect>
          </g>
        </g>
        <g id="Layer_1">
        </g>
      </g></svg></li-icon>
    <p class="artdeco-toast-message">
              Invitation sent to xxxxx
        <button class="action" data-ember-action="" data-ember-action-3995="3995">
          Visualizar perfil
        </button>

    </p>
  </div>

Answer 1

You can use //p[@class='artdeco-toast-message']/text() xpath to locate the Invitation sent to xxxxx text but selenium doesn't support text() method in xpath to locate a text node.

Either if you try to locate the element using below xpath to exclude the button text by using not() function of xpath :

//p[@class='artdeco-toast-message']/node()[not(self::button)]

Again it locating the element using text node so Selenium doesn't allow this

Here one solution available to execute same xpath ie JavascriptExecutor

Use evaluate() method of JavaScript and evaluate your xpath using JavascriptExecutor

JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
Object message = js.executeScript("var value = document.evaluate(\"//p[@class='artdeco-toast-message']/text()\",document, null, XPathResult.STRING_TYPE, null ); return value.stringValue;");
System.out.println(message.toString().trim());

OR

JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
Object message = js.executeScript("var value = document.evaluate(\"//p[@class='artdeco-toast-message']/node()[not(self::button)]\",document, null, XPathResult.STRING_TYPE, null ); return value.stringValue;");
System.out.println(message.toString().trim());

It will give you the expected result. No need to get all data and then formatting using String functions.

You can explore evaluate() in detail from here

Answer 2

You can try with the following code.

WebElement text=driver.findElement(By.className("artdeco-toast-message"));
String wholeText = text.getText();
String unWantedText=text.findElement(By.className("action")).getText();
String RequiredText=wholeText.replace(unWantedText,"");
System.out.println(RequiredText);

Answer 3

In fact Selenium's getText() method retrieves all the text in sub elements too, so the approach, recommended by Murthi is the most applicable, as far as I know. Try this approach:

String newLine = System.getProperty("line.separator");
String pessoapopu = driver.findElement(By.className("artdeco-toast-message"))
                           .getText().replaceAll(newLine, "");

Or try/ask for more convenient HTML code.

Answer 4

给定HTML，您应该能够.getText() ，在换行符上拆分该文本，然后进行第一次拆分以获取所需的文本。

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("p.artdeco-toast-message")).getText().split("\r\n")[0];