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CepMan
CepMan

Reputation: 101

Selenium WebDriver C# - get text

I have this Html element on the page:

<li id="city" class="anketa_list-item">
   <div class="anketa_item-city">From</div>
    London
</li>

I found this element:

driver.FindElement(By.Id("city"))

If I try: driver.FindElement(By.Id("city")).Text, => my result: "From\r\nLondon".

How can I get only London by WebDriver?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 71003

Answers (4)

C_Sutt
C_Sutt

Reputation: 202

This worked for me.

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//li[@id='city']/text()"));enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Bart Wojtala
Bart Wojtala

Reputation: 1320

You can try this:

var fromCityTxt = driver.FindElement(By.Id("city")).Text;
var city = Regex.Split(fromCityTxt, "\r\n")[1];

Upvotes: 1

Madhu
Madhu

Reputation: 497

You could easily get by using class-name: 

driver.FindElement(By.Class("anketa_item-city")).Text;

or using Xpath

driver.FindElement(By.Xpath("\li\div")).Text;

Upvotes: 14

Nguyen Vu Hoang
Nguyen Vu Hoang

Reputation: 1570

Sorry for my misleading. My previous provide xpath is which ends in the function /text() which selects not a node, but the text of it.

Approach for this situation is get parent's text then replace children's text then trim to remove space/special space/etc ....

var parent = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//li"))
var child = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//li/div"))
var london = parent.Text.Replace(child.Text, "").Trim()

Notes:

If Trim() isn't working then it would appear that the "spaces" aren't spaces but some other non printing character, possibly tabs. In this case you need to use the String.Trim method which takes an array of characters:

char[] charsToTrim = { ' ', '\t' };
string result = txt.Trim(charsToTrim);

Upvotes: 0

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