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Belin
Belin

Reputation: 353

Selenium: How to get plain text from html source?

i'm going to rewrite all my tests project, by replacing Selenium by HtmlUnit because i'm not able to get plain text in selenium as i can do with htmlunit using "HtmlPage:asText" method. Getting plain text can help me to verify easily the content of a page, without paying attention of the presence or not of the tags.

For example a plain text like this " One, two three" may correspond to many html source: 

<p>One, two three</p>

or <table> <tr><td>One1</td><td>two</td><td>three</td> </tr></table> or <div><span>One, </span> <span>two, </span> <span>three, </span> </div>

By using HtmlUnit i can write functional test without paying attention of how the actual content will be represented in the html format.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 10685

Answers (1)

Santoshsarma
Santoshsarma

Reputation: 5667

This will give you only plain text in page

String pageSource=driver.findElement(By.tagName("body")).getText();

Below logic will gives you entire page source.

driver.getPageSource();

Upvotes: 4

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