Retrieving Text between Text in Selenium C#

Question

I am facing problem in retrieving Subject title of a mail from Unread mails using Selenium webdriver-C#.

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Answer 1

The 'getText' method available in the Java implementation of Selenium Web Driver seems to do a better job than the equivalent 'Text' property available in C#.

I found a way of achieving the same end which, although somewhat convoluted, works well:

public static string GetInnerHtml(this IWebElement element)
{
    var remoteWebDriver = (RemoteWebElement)element;
    var javaScriptExecutor = (IJavaScriptExecutor) remoteWebDriver.WrappedDriver;
    var innerHtml = javaScriptExecutor.ExecuteScript("return arguments[0].innerHTML;", element).ToString();

    return innerHtml;
}

It works by passing an IWebElement as a parameter to some JavaScript executing in the Browser, which treats it just like a normal DOM element. You can then access properties on it such as 'innerHTML'.

I've only tested this in Google Chrome but I see no reason why this shouldn't work in other browsers.