How to read text from an element?

Hi, everybody!

I need to read the text from an element. I hav the following:

Code:


  driver = new FirefoxDriver();
  driver.findElement(By.name("myElementID")).getText();


This element HAS text, but the returned text is empty (returns "" ). What is happening? Why I can not get the text?

I can put text inside this element like this:

Code:


  driver.findElement(By.name("myElementID")).sendKeys("someText");


The text is written, works fine. So, why am I having problems when trying to read???

Hi,


try like this

System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.name("myElementID")).getText());

are there other identifiers besides 'name' for this element? Like id, class, etc. ?
if yes, then try (using class in example below)

System.out.println(driver.findElements(By.xpath("//*[@class='{whatever the class is}']").getText());

How to click on these links?

Can u please let me know? I need to get all the links available in the page and click on all the links. am stuck with clicking on the links.

popsha wrote:Hi,


try like this

System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.name("myElementID")).getText());

Hi AnuSrini,

divide your xpath by rows of a web table. for instance,
xpath = //table[1]/tbody/tr[1]/td[2]/a, here tr[1] is first row number of the wen table.
below is the code for above xpath (web table)

Code:


String xpath_1 = "//table[1]/tbody/tr["
String xpath_2 = "]]/td[2]/a"
try{
int i=1;
while(true){
String val = driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath_1"+i+"xpath_2")).getText();

i++;
}
} catch(Exception e){}



now you can iterate the "i" to get the link clicked where needed.\

hope this might help you!

Is the element hidden?... getText can be used only with visible elements.

Regards
Ashish
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