Java Selenium, how to get linkText (anchor) from link WebElement

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I have a WebElement containing link found by url. I can extract url by:

webElement.getAttribute("href");

But the question is: how to extract it's anchor, I'm trying like this:

webElement.getAttribute("linkText");

It gives me null value. I'm 100% sure this link has an anchor. Is there any way to get anchor ? It's more complicated, but example simplified code could look like this:

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        driver.get("http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java");
        WebElement webElement = driver.findElement(By.linkText("Bicycles"));
        
        System.out.println(webElement.getAttribute("href")); // shows http://bicycles.stackexchange.com/
        System.out.println(webElement.getAttribute("linkText")); // shows null

Jonas_Hess · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-13 14:52:38Z

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If getText() returns an empty String, try the innerHTML attribute:

String text = element.getAttribute("innerHTML")

answered Oct 13, 2018 at 14:52

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Igor Maximov Over a year ago

Usually, the link text value goes together with unnecessary carriage return symbols and whitespaces. it's better to trim them all like this: String text = element.getAttribute("innerHTML").replaceAll("\\p{Cntrl}", "").trim();

Kalle Richter · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-31 10:56:18Z

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Try this:

System.out.println(link.getText());

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ddavison · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-22 12:08:30Z

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By "Anchor" I think you mean the text of the link? If so, then you can use .getText() since an <a> is a block level element.

link.getText();

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Petar Popovic Over a year ago

<a> or anchor tag a.k.a hyperlink is not block level element, it's inline element

Kalle Richter · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-31 10:53:23Z

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Here you can store your id text:

String text = driver.findElement(By.id("Text")).getText();
System.out.println(text);

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