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Toy_Soldier
Toy_Soldier

Reputation: 41

Fetch a particular String in <div> using xpath

I have the following DOM structure / HTML:

<div class = "something" >
    <div>
        <span>Some text</span>
    </div>
"Automated Script"
</div>

I am testing using Selenium Webdriver and have to fetch the string Automated Script to do an Assert.

Assert.assertEquals("Automated Script",webDriver.findElement(By.xpath("/div")).getText());

But the above xpath fetches both Some Text and Automated Script. Is there a way to only get the string Automated Script?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 171

Answers (2)

NarendraR
NarendraR

Reputation: 7708

Yes, there is work around to execute text() in xpath in selenium. Directly it won't work in selenium

Use evaluate() method of JavaScript and evaluate your xpath using JavascriptExecutor

JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
Object message = js.executeScript("var value = document.evaluate(\"//div[@class='something']/text()\",document, null, XPathResult.STRING_TYPE, null ); return value.stringValue;");
System.out.println(message.toString().trim());

Upvotes: 0

Sers
Sers

Reputation: 12255

With assertEquals:

String divText = webDriver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.something")).getText();
String spanText = webDriver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.something span")).getText();
String expectedText = divText.replace(spanText, "").strip();
Assert.assertEquals("Automated Script", expectedText);

With contains and asserTrue:

Assert.assertTrue(webDriver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.something")).getText().contains("Automated Script"));

Using WebDriverWait, that will wait for text and through an error:

new WebDriverWait(driver, 5)
        .until(ExpectedConditions
                .textToBePresentInElementLocated(By.cssSelector("div.something"), "Automated Script"));

Upvotes: 1

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