Get value using python selenium

Question

How am I able to extract the value " document sent " from the following html code using python library selenium see code i tried which returns None

print driver.find_element_by_id('errorMessage').get_attribute("value")

html code:

<TABLE>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD id=errorMessage>Document sent. </TD>
</TR>
</TBODY>
</TABLE>

Answer 1

Try this:

driver.find_element_by_id("errorMessage").getText();   

OR

driver.find_element_by_id("errorMessage").getAttribute("innerHTML");

Hope this helps..

Answer 2

Try to use below code to get required text:

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait as wait

text = wait(driver, 10).until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_id("errorMessage").text)