Selenium - Get a text node using xpath and use it as a string in Java [duplicate]

Answer 1

I'm not sure I know the best way to do this but this is a way. The issue is that you are looking for specific text within a group of elements that are children of the wrapper DIV. The only thing I can see in the example that you provided is that the text you want is outside of a containing tag. We can use that to our advantage. Basically the approach is to grab the entirety of the text inside wrapper and then loop through all child elements of wrapper removing the text contained within each from the original string. That should leave the text that you want. I have tested the code below using the example you provided.

String wrapperText = driver.findElement(By.id("wrapper")).getText().trim(); // get all the text under wrapper
List children = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("#wrapper > *")); // get all the child elements of wrapper
for (WebElement child : children)
{
    String subText = child.getText(); // get the text from the child element
    wrapperText = wrapperText.replace(subText, "").trim(); // remove the child text from the wrapper text
}
System.out.println(wrapperText);