Can anyone help me to read a label text from selenium webdriver
The for attribute value and label text are entirely different
asked Feb 21, 2012 at 9:56
Harshavardhan Konakanchi
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Please provide the HTML code so that it is easier to answer your questionRipon Al Wasim– Ripon Al Wasim2012-10-11 04:09:55 +00:00Commented Oct 11, 2012 at 4:09
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Assuming the label looks in HTML something like this:
<span id="spannyspan" title="the Title of SPAN">The Text</span>
then the WebElement will be best approached like this:
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
WebElement theSpan = driver.findElement(By.id("spannyspan"));
String title = theSpan.getAttribute("title");
String label = theSpan.getText();
System.out.println(title); // will return "the Title of SPAN"
System.out.println(label); // will return "The Text"
// both without apostrophes ofcourse
If this does not help please provide sample HTML of label which you are trying to fetch
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Franz Ebner
As I don't know- is it the best way to make a WebElement for non functional HTML Elements as a label?
Pavel Janicek
In case you need get text from span, then yes. Imagine that the span will hold the Order ID which can be later on verified against database...
Franz Ebner
I just thought there could be a something like a passive WebElement with reduced instructionset
Pavel Janicek
If there is, I am not aware of it
Ripon Al Wasim
@PavelJanicek: Good example with providing HTML code by your own. According to you it would work fine, I think. But, It was better if the poster could provide the snippet of HTML code.
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Suppose there is a label contain text "hello":
<label>hello</label>
then what you have to do is: # first find this element using xpath or css locator and store that into WebElement object:
WebElement label = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//label[contains(text(),'hello')]");
# After that using getText() method you can get the text of the label element.getText() method return value in string so,store the value in the string variable
String lbltext = label.getText();
# After that if you want to print the value then
System.out.println("text = "+lbltext);
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Clijsters
Please consider reformatting your answer. It's quite hard to read with these monster bold texts and unformatted code snippets. Please read How do I write a good answer.