How to get the text of an anchor tag selected by xPath() using selenium and Mocha

Question

I have successfully selected an tag. I want to display the text of the anchor tag and I am unable to do so.

I am using selenium, mocha, javascript

Answer 1

You can try this approach:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(@class, 'user-name m-r-sm text-muted welcome-message')]")).getText().then(function(text){
                           console.log("Username : " + text);
                        });

• you only need to search via findElement (not findElements)
• and directly extract the text before the function part
  

UPDATE:

Sometimes the object is not really hidden, but also not in the viewport, then gettext() also returns an empty String.
To check try the following:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(@class, 'user-name m-r-sm text-muted welcome-message')]")).getAttribute("innerText").then(function(text){
                           console.log("Username : " + text);
                        });

Answer 2

You are using the plural findElements, which gives you a list of elements. Using e.text against the list won't work because you can only use .text with a webobject.

Use the singular version to get the first match on the page: driver.findElement()

If you do need to get the text of only one element in a list, use e[0].text to get the text of the first element in the list.