Get text from XPath located Element using Selenium WebDriver with JavaScript

Question

I am trying to find an element using xpath and get the elements text value.

For example, I can find the element using xpath in the following way

driver.findElement(webdriver.By.xpath("//div/span));

But I want to get the text of this particular element by using JavaScript.

HTML content is like below

<div><span>Inner Text</span></div>

Solution 1

The function you want is getText().

String text = driver.findElement(webdriver.By.xpath("//div/span")).getText();

Solution 2

const By = webdriver.By;

driver.findElement(By.xpath('//div/span'))
    .then(span => span.getText())
    .then(text => console.log(text))

Most of the actions in the webdriver for node/'javascript' return a promise, you have to do a .then to actually get the values.

Comments

[Manu K Mohan]

This is Java. I want to do it using nodejs/javascript

[Nathan Merrill]

@MarkAmery The functions are usually similarly named across languages

[zishan paya]

Answer in Java coding language instead of Javascript