how to use find_element after finding the hyperlink through click()

Question

I used

continue_link=driver.find_elements_by_partial_link_text("contract")

to get a list of links. How do I apply find_elements on web elements I got already?

And how to return strings on web pages? Can find_element do that?

For example:

      <div class="article-detail-text">
         <h1>notice</h1>
         <p class="article-date">release date：2019-05-22</p>

       <p>hi：<br />
　　I like basketball and football.<br />
　　I like cooking.<br />
　　Thanks.</p>

And I want to return: "I like basketball and football. I like cooking. Thanks."

Answer 1

WebElement has find_elements() functions as well

continue_link = driver.find_elements_by_partial_link_text("contract")
for link in continue_link:
    elements = link.find_elements_by_partial_link_text('')

And to get specific substring you can do

s1 = 'I like basketball and football'
s2 = 'like'

result = s1[s1.index(s2) + len(s2):]

Answer 2

I believe the correct XPath expression to match the HTML snippet you provided would be something like:

//div[@class='article-detail-text']/descendant::p[contains(text(),'hi')]

Once you locate the relevant <div> tag you will be able to get the text of the descendant <p> tag using innerText property

print(driver
      .find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='article-detail-text']/descendant::p[contains(text(),'hi')]")
      .get_attribute("innerText"))

Demo:

Answer 3

To return the text I like basketball and football. I like cooking. Thanks. I like basketball and football. I like cooking. Thanks. You can try the following option.

print(' '.join(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//p[contains(.,'hi:')]").text.split('hi:')[1].splitlines()))

This will print :

I like basketball and football. I like cooking. Thanks.