Selenium Java-Unable to get text from the webpage element

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Webpage i am automating: https://app.ghostinspector.com/account/create

Scenario: I am clicking on the signup page and entering details and clicking on the register button, now if user passes a same email address the message "E-mail address is already in use." is displayed on the website so what i am trying to do is that locate the text message clear it and enter another email address at runtime.

Now the problem is that the error message text is not fetched by the gettext method of selenium.

Below is the code:

 WebElement email_in_use = driver.findElement(
    By.xpath("/html/body/div[1]/div/div/div[2]/form/div/div[1]"));
    String message = email_in_use.getText();    
    System.out.println(message);

Let me know whats the problem here.

Try to use better xpath expression rather than automated tools generated xpath expressions. check w3schools.com/xml/xpath_intro.asp — Amr Lotfy
– Amr Lotfy, Commented Feb 1, 2018 at 11:10
@AmrLotfy Thanks for your advice but this question was put a year back if u didn't miss out the post date :) Was a beginner in this at that time. — Automation Engr
– Automation Engr, Commented Feb 2, 2018 at 12:12

JeffC · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-21 15:09:01Z

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You just need a brief wait to wait until the DIV that contains the error message appears. The code below is working for me.

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("https://app.ghostinspector.com/account/create");
driver.findElement(By.id("input-firstName")).sendKeys("Johnny");
driver.findElement(By.id("input-lastName")).sendKeys("Smith");
driver.findElement(By.id("input-email")).sendKeys("[email protected]");
driver.findElement(By.id("input-password")).sendKeys("abc123");
driver.findElement(By.id("input-terms")).click();
driver.findElement(By.id("btn-create")).click();
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
WebElement e = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector("div[ng-show='errors']")));
System.out.println(e.getText());

answered Jun 21, 2016 at 15:09

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Sudharsan Selvaraj · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-21 13:07:47Z

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you are using getAttribute("value") to get the text from the div element. try using email_in_use.getText().

answered Jun 21, 2016 at 13:07

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Automation Engr Over a year ago

yup Sudharshan had tried gettext() method initially it didnt work.

Sudharsan Selvaraj Over a year ago

it is working fine for me. try adding Thread.sleep(2000) after clicking the create account button and get the text from the div.

Saurabh Gaur Over a year ago

@SudharsanSelvarj Thread.sleep is not a better solution to achieve it you need to implement WebDriverWait with ExpectedCondition...:)

Sudharsan Selvaraj Over a year ago

yeah i know @SaurabhGaur .Just for checking i asked to try using Thread.sleep.

Saurabh Gaur · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-21 13:49:10Z

You need to implement WebDriverWait here to getText() because the error element already present there without any text and it fill with text when any error occurred like E-mail address is already in use.

So you need to wait until error element has some text as like below :-

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 100);

String message = wait.until(new ExpectedCondition<String>() {
                    public String apply(WebDriver d) {
                        WebElement el = d.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[1]/div/div/div[2]/form/div/div[1]"));
                        if(el.getText().length() != 0) {
                            return el.getText();
                        }
                    }
                });

System.out.println(message);

Note :- As your xpath is positional which is depends on element position, it's may be fail if there wiil be some element add during action, I suggest, you can be use this xpath also By.xpath("//div[@ng-show='errors']").

You can also use as like below :-

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.textToBePresentInElementLocated(By.xpath("//div[@ng-show='errors']"), "E-mail address is already in use"));
WebElement email_in_use = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@ng-show='errors']"));
String message = email_in_use.getText();

Hope it will work....:)

SaiPawan · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-21 14:07:22Z

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Try usinfg this to clear the text box

driver.switchTo().alert().getText();

edited Jun 21, 2016 at 14:07

answered Jun 21, 2016 at 12:59

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Automation Engr Over a year ago

Thats not the issue. I am not able to get the text "E-mail address is already in use." from the webelement email_in_use ....

Automation Engr Over a year ago

Sure. <div class="alert alert-warning ng-binding" ng-show="errors">E-mail address is already in use.</div>

SaiPawan Over a year ago

driver.switchTo().alert().getText(); This will get the text from alert you are getting.

Amr Lotfy · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-01 11:06:50Z

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Have you tried element.getAttribute('value') ?

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answered Feb 1, 2018 at 11:06

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