how to get value of text wrapped in paragraph element <p> with selenium in java

Question

I have a button, clicking on it generates a number which is wrapped in paragraph text such as <p>random number <p>, I want to get that random number value and do operations based on number it generates. From below I need to get 34,756 number and store it in java here is the html code for it:

<div class="form-group">
<div class="alert alert-count">
  <p>
  <b>
<!-- react-text: 531 -->
<!-- /react-text -->
<!-- react-text: 532 -->
 34,756
<!-- /react-text -->
</b>

and the xpath I used is as below

String count = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='alert alert-count']/p[1]/b).getText();

but on console it gives error as

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException

Solution 1

Try using following:

  String count = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.alert.alert-count p")).getText();

Solution 2

Try this below code using xpath locator

String element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='alert alert-count']/p/b")).getText();
System.out.println(element);

Explanation of xpath:- Use class attribute of <div> tag and move ahead with <p> and <b> tag.

Comments

[Fran Montero]

Is By.xpath("//div[@class='alert alert-count']/p) working?

[Prasad_Joshi]

yes..it is working correctly, only problem is to get that value in a string