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#.

Here\'s the HTML code :

        
                      

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Answer 1

I had the same problem. Worked on PhantomJS. The solution is to get the value using GetAttribute("textContent"):

Driver.FindElementsByXPath("SomexPath").GetAttribute("textContent");

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Probably too late but could be helpful for someone.

        IWebElement spanText= driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//span[contains(text(), 'TEXT TO LOOK FOR')]"));
        spanText.Click();


        IWebElement spanParent= driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//span[contains(text(), 'TEXT TO LOOK FOR')]/ancestor::li"));
        spanParent.FindElement(By.XPath(".//a[contains(text(), 'SIBLING LINK TEXT')]")).Click();

bonus content here to look for siblings of this text once the span element is found, look for siblings by starting from parent. I am looking for an anchor link here. The dot at the start of XPath means you start looking from the element spanParent

<li>
<span> TEXT TO LOOK FOR </span>
<a>SIBLING LINK TEXT</a>
</li>

Answer 4

Using GetAttribute("textContent") instead of Text() did the trick for me.

Driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("ul.list span")).GetAttribute("textContent")

Answer 5

This worked for me in Visual Studio 2017 Unit test project. I'm trying to find the search result from a typeahead control.

    IWebElement searchBox = this.WebDriver.FindElement(By.Id("searchEntry"));
searchBox.SendKeys(searchPhrase);
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(3000);

IList<IWebElement> results = this.WebDriver.FindElements(By.CssSelector(".tt-suggestion.tt-selectable"));
if (results.Count > 1)
{

    searchResult = results[1].FindElement(By.TagName("span")).GetAttribute("textContent");
}

Answer 6

Try this

findElement(By.cssSelector("div.y6>span>b")).getText();