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user2250482
user2250482

Reputation: 75

How to get a text from following div using Selenium Webdriver

I am trying to get the text content of the items inside the following 2 div elements but getting an error that the element cannot be found. For example the text content for first div is "Text1". How can I get that text?

So far, I have tried:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='ctrlNotesWindow']/div[3]/ul/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]")).getText())

and that complains of not finding that element.

Here is the html code:

<div class="notesData">
<div class="notesDate" data-bind="text: $.format('{0} - {1}', moment(Date).format('MMM DD, YYYY h:mm a'), User)">Text1</div>
<div class="notesText" data-bind="text: Note">Text2 on next line</div>
</div>

Here is the error, I get:

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[@id='ctrlNotesWindow']/div[3]/ul/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]"}

Upvotes: 3

Views: 98077

Answers (3)

Yi Zeng
Yi Zeng

Reputation: 32855

Don't use meaningless XPath. Your error message tells you "NoSuchElement", so you had your locator wrong, which has nothing to do with getText (not yet). Try using CssSelector or meaningful XPath:

 driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("#ctrlNotesWindow .notesData > .notesDate")).getText();

Upvotes: 11

Angel Cuenca
Angel Cuenca

Reputation: 1659

It works with:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='ui-pnotify-text']")).getText();

which is an PNotify notification.

Upvotes: 1

Marielle
Marielle

Reputation: 918

If for whatever reason you'd want to stick with Xpath:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='notesData']/div[@class='notesDate']")).getText();

Otherwise, the css selector answer above is a good option.

Another alternative is to locate the element by class name:

driver.findElement(By.className("notesDate")).getText();

Upvotes: 6

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