Question

How to get a text of a web element?

Answer 1

By using getText() method

package softwareTestingMaterial;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class TestTestTest {

@Test

public void testmethod(){

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:\\Selenium Environment\\Drivers\\chromedriver.exe");

  WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

  driver.get("https://www.google.com");

  String availableText = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='gbw']/div/div/div[1]/div[1]/a")).getText();

  System.out.println("Text Available is :"+availableText);

}

}

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package softwareTestingMaterial;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class TestTestTest {

 

 @Test

 public void testmethod(){

 System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:\\Selenium Environment\\Drivers\\chromedriver.exe");

    WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

    driver.get("https://www.google.com");

    String availableText = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='gbw']/div/div/div[1]/div[1]/a")).getText();

    System.out.println("Text Available is :"+availableText);

 }

}