How to get the text inside a h2 tag in selenium python

Question

how to get the text inside the html tag and assert if it is present on the page.

html-

<h2>  You are suggested the Low Fat Vegan Diet </h2>

i tried-

message = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('h2').Text()

AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'Text'

 message = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('h2').getText()

AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'getText'

how do i get the text and assert it is present in the page?

Answer 1

the method name is find_elements_by_tag_name so it returns a list of elements . if your target element is the first item in elements you can try this:

message = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('h2')[0].text

i recommend you to use Beautifulsoup to get better search in elements.

Answer 2

It's hard to tell without the full HTML, but if you have multiple h2 elements you will need to iterate through them to get the text.

message = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('h2')
for i in message:
    print(i.text) 

Otherwise, you should be able to select the text with .text

message = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('h2').text

Answer 3

you could use

//h2[contains(text(),'String value')]