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How to get text found between span – Selenium
We can get the text found within the span tag with Selenium webdriver.
The text of a web element can be captured with the method getText. Let us see an example of an element having the text - © Copyright 2021. All Rights Reserved enclosed within the span tag.
Syntax
WebElement l = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//p/span"));
String s = l.getText();Example
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
public class SpanText{
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver",
"C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\geckodriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
//implicit wait
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
//maximize window
driver.manage().window().maximize();
//URL launch
driver.get("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/index.htm");
// scroll to element with Javascript Executor
JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
js.executeScript("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight)");
// identify element with span and get text
WebElement l = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//p/span"));
String s = l.getText();
System.out.println("Text is: " + s);
driver.quit();
}
}Output
Updated on: 03-Apr-2021
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