How to print text from child node using xpath?

Question

xpath:

//*[@id='full-scorecard']/div[2]/div/table[1]/tbody/tr[3]/td[2]/child::text()

The above code only returns a webelement am not able to print the text.

WebElement txt= driver.findElement(By.xpath(
   "//*[@id='full-scorecard']/div[2]/div/table[1]/tbody/tr[3]/td[2]/child::text()"));

System.out.println(txt);

HTML:

12.6 caught Hughes 73/4

In selenium, the XPath expression used inside By.xpath() locator has to point to a web element. You cannot match a text node this way. — alecxe
– alecxe, Commented Oct 2, 2015 at 13:44
<td colspan="8"> 12.6 caught Hughes 73/4 </td> — rajpradeep32
– rajpradeep32, Commented Oct 2, 2015 at 13:48
Maybe you should try getText() on the WebElement like suggested in here — Maze
– Maze, Commented Oct 2, 2015 at 13:59
@alecxe, thanks, that helps. It's not clear whether "web element" always means DOM Element, as opposed to some other type of DOM node. I see at release.seleniumhq.org/selenium-remote-control/0.9.2/doc/dotnet/… that Selenium XPath supports selection of attributes (e.g. //a[contains(@href,'#id1')]/@class), so apparently "web elements" are not always DOM elements. Unfortunately Selenium's documentation is not very systematic or thorough. — LarsH
– LarsH, Commented Oct 2, 2015 at 14:31

Flow Bo · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-02 14:06:58Z

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this should work :

WebElement txt= driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='full-scorecard']/div[2]/div/table[1]/tbody/tr[3]/td[2]"));

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

answered Oct 2, 2015 at 14:06

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rajpradeep32 Over a year ago

This gives me the entire text 12.6 caught Hughes 73/4 but am trying to get the text caught Hughes alone.

Kevin Brown-Silva Over a year ago

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Sadik Ali · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-02 20:02:41Z

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Selenium webdriver return all test under element object including child element.

So after reading you should remove integer values from text.

Thanks Sadik

answered Oct 2, 2015 at 20:02

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