getText() method of selenium chrome driver sometimes returns an empty string

Question

I have a curious case where the selenium chrome driver getText() method (java) returns an empty string for some elements, even though it returns a non-empty str

Answer 1

if you don't care about isDisplayed or scrolling position, you can also write

String text = ((JavaScriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("return $(arguments[0]).text();", element);

or without jquery

String text = ((JavaScriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("return arguments[0].innerText;", element);