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pythonpython-3.xseleniumfor-loopelement
Grass
Grass

Reputation: 185

Printing all texts, required only one

I have a html file:

<div class="panel-heading">
Some Text1
<strong>Hello</strong>
</div>
<div>
Some Text2
Some Text3
<strong>
Hi1
Hi2
</strong

I want to print only Hello in my python script using selenium, so I tried:

element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='panel-heading']")    
for element in driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('strong'):
    print (element.text)

The result is:

Hello

Hi1

Hi2

But I want only:

Hello

Upvotes: 0

Views: 152

Answers (4)

Sers
Sers

Reputation: 12255

You did small mistake in your code, you get div with panel-heading but in the loop you iterate throw all elements with tag strong in DOM. Perhaps, here how you wanted it to be:

divElement = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='panel-heading']")    
for element in divElement.find_elements_by_tag_name('strong'):
    print (element.text)

But div with panel-heading contains only one span and strong, you can get it with css selector:

strongText = driver.find_element_css_selector(".panel-heading strong").text

Upvotes: 0

user2390182
user2390182

Reputation: 73460

You can use next:

for element in driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('strong'):
    print(next(element.text for element in driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('strong')))

Or less cryptic and more robust if there is no such element, just break the loop after the print:

for element in driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('strong'):
    print(element.text)
    break

Upvotes: 0

Andersson
Andersson

Reputation: 52665

You can simply use 

element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='panel-heading']")
print(element.find_element_by_tag_name('strong').text)

to print first strong text from required div

Note that for element in driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('strong') means to iterate over all strong nodes on page. You need to replace driver with element to iterate over descendant strongs of defined WebElement:

for strong in element.find_elements_by_tag_name('strong'):
    print(strong.text)

Upvotes: 0

vipul gangwar
vipul gangwar

Reputation: 313

Your code give you list. So simply use first element of the list, which give you "Hello".

element = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('strong')[0]

Upvotes: 1

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