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Sujit Soni
Sujit Soni

Reputation: 135

How to get text outside tag

Want to get text which is outside a tag. Here is the HTML:

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
       class="viewingsCommentsTbl">
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>
        <b style="border: 2px solid red; 
                  background: rgb(204, 136, 136);">Viewing Conducted: </b>
        18-May-2016
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td style=""><b style="">Duration: </b> 1 hr</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td style=""><b style="">Comments: </b>66yy</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

I wanted to get date i.e "18-May-2016"

I tried following XPath, but it does not work:

//*[@class="viewingsCommentsTbl"]/tbody/tr[1]/td/b

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2160

Answers (3)

kjhughes
kjhughes

Reputation: 111726

Here is a more robust way to select "18-May-2016" based on its preceding Viewing Conducted: label within a td in the viewingsCommentsTbl table independent of table layout:

normalize-space(
   substring-after(//table[@class='viewingsCommentsTbl']
                   //td[starts-with(.,'Viewing Conducted:')],'Viewing Conducted:'))

This gets the text outside of a tag (per your request) by selecting the string value of the element's parent and then using substring-after() to get just the text that follows the label.

Upvotes: 0

Rajnish Kumar
Rajnish Kumar

Reputation: 2938

Hi please try it like below 

WebElement dateis = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@class='viewingsCommentsTbl']/tbody/tr/td"));
System.out.println("Date is : " + dateis.getText());

and the output is : Date is : Viewing Conducted: 18-May-2016

// also if want to extract date only then

String [] extractdate = dateis.getText().split(" ");
System.out.println("Extracted date is : " + extractdate[2]);

and the output is : Extracted date is : 18-May-2016

Upvotes: 0

Guy
Guy

Reputation: 50949

The text is in the <td> tag, not the <b>. Try

//*[@class="viewingsCommentsTbl"]/tbody/tr[1]/td

Upvotes: 1

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