Selenium C# - Finding div elements text by span element in it

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I would like to get the text of <div> element. The only thing I am able to use is <span> element inside this <div>.

<div>
    <span id="lblName" class="fieldTitle">Name</span>
    John
</div>

How can I receive John using lblName or Name?

the-noob · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-02 11:57:17Z

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You can use xpath

span = driver.findElement(By.id("lblName"));
div = span.findElement(By.xpath(".."));

answered Feb 2, 2016 at 11:57

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Oak Over a year ago

I am not sure why, but I am not able to locate the element by id

Oak Over a year ago

Found that iframe was causing the element not to be found

Mohammad Usman · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-19 12:15:21Z

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You can try: //span[@id = 'lblName']/parent::div/text()

edited Feb 19, 2018 at 12:15

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answered Feb 2, 2016 at 12:14

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VDN · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-02 12:44:41Z

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Something like this:

string xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>" + 
             "<div>" + 
             "<span id=\"lblName\" class=\"fieldTitle\">Name</span>" + 
             "</div>";

XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Parse(xml);

var parent = xdoc.Descendants().First(el => el.Name == "span" && 
                         el.Attribute("id") != null &&
                         el.Attribute("id").Value == "lblName").Parent;

answered Feb 2, 2016 at 12:44

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Buaban · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-02 12:55:14Z

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You cannot get the text node by Selenium. Please try the workaround with JS below:

IWebElement span = driver.FindElement(By.Id("lblName"));
IWebElement div = span.FindElement(By.XPath(".."));
string script = "var nodes = arguments[0].childNodes;" +
                "var text = '';" +
                "for (var i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++) {" +
                "    if (nodes[i].nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE) {" +
                "        text += nodes[i].textContent;" +
                "    }" +
                "}" +
                "return text;";
string text = driver.GetJavaScriptExecutor().ExecuteScript(script, div).ToString();

answered Feb 2, 2016 at 12:55

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