How to get text of an element in selenium?

How to get text of an element in selenium?

Just like the paragraph and dropdown, one can retrieve the text of an alert as well. Alerts are common with many applications, and hence there can be a need to check text present on it. The below code would fetch text from an alert and print it for this demo website.

How to get value of text wrapped in paragraph element < p >?

Keep in mind findElement does not wait for the element, it just fails instantly. I think the there is a problem with the provided XPath, you are navigating to the paragraph tag ( tag) and fetching the text, I suggest you navigate to the bold tag (tag) and fetch the respective value, like the following:

How to get the text inside HTML ( paragraph )?

Since the p tag is the parent tag of input, and the text ‘Select from list’ is a innerHTML/text of p tag, this below JAVA code might help (assuming you are using java): This will retrieve the innerHTML/text of the p tag. Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow!

Do you wait for element to be present in selenium?

Do you wait for the element, because I think the findElement returns no object ( e.g. NULL) when it is not displayed (yet) and called getText () on a NULL is not possible , resulting in the NullPointerException. Read: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20903231/how-to-wait-until-an-element-is-present-in-selenium

How to get serialization of the Dom in selenium?

However, I do not see an efficient way to get a serialization of the DOM together with Selenium’s own identifiers. Selenium creates these identifiers on an as-needed basis, when you call find_element or when DOM nodes are returned from an execute_script call (or passed to the callback that execute_async_script gives to the script).

Where does the value go in Selenium Web Driver?

For input elements, the displayed text is not wrapped by the tag, instead it’s inside the value attribute. Note: Case matters. If you specify “Value”, you’ll get a ‘null’ value back.

How to find element id from Selenium server?

Client side (python script) can do its own search algorithm to find the right element. However, parsing this doesn’t give the internal element id from selenium server’s point of view, hence not useful.