Java: getAttribute in Selenium

Question

Currently I am working with the following HTML snippet:

<div class="cardEntry">
<!-- Balance Block Section (R)-->
<div class="balanceBLock">
<ul>
<li class="balanceText">Actual Balance</li>
<li class="balance">
<strong id="155555520be0019actualBalance">$1.00</strong>
</li>
<li class="balanceText">Available Balance</li>
<li class="balance">

I am trying to get the balance: $1.00 using the XPath:

.//*[@id='155555520be0019actualBalance']

and then attempting to obtain the dollar value using the method .getText however this does not return anything.

I can identify the element just fine using this XPath but it does not return the dollar value with getText method.

Can someone explain how to obtain this value?

Thanks

What if you make the expression more specific: //li[. = 'Actual Balance']/following-sibling::li/strong? — alecxe
– alecxe, Commented Jun 30, 2016 at 23:57
Please post the code you are using. What are you getting as a result? We don't want to guess what your code was or why you might not be getting the result you expect. — JeffC
– JeffC, Commented Jul 1, 2016 at 1:16
I think you have to use some wait before finding the element ... — Saurabh Gaur
– Saurabh Gaur, Commented Jul 1, 2016 at 5:22
@alecxe this expression has 8 matching nodes I am looking for one that specifically matches one of the 8 — ee clipse
– ee clipse, Commented Jul 7, 2016 at 16:41

murali selenium · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-01 07:07:40Z

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Looks like id is dynamic here.. use xpath like below with partial id

  //strong[contains(@id,'actualBalance')]

or else use

//li[. = 'Actual Balance']/following-sibling::li/strong

specified by alecxe in comment.

answered Jul 1, 2016 at 7:07

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Mrunal Gosar · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-01 06:49:27Z

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Try getAttribute() with any of the below values: "value", "innerText", "innerHTML"

answered Jul 1, 2016 at 6:49

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