Select a text inside a Div

[SeleniumMember]

Hi all,

I am very new to CSS and I am trying to select a Text inside the div using CSS locator. I have tried bunch of stuff and goggled a lot as well, I can't seem to get this right. I will appreciate any help.

1. Div class="category">Dashboards One</div> 

   Div class="category">Dashboard Two</div>

   Div class="category">Dashboards Three</div>

div.category but I don't know how to get Text.

.category') div('text') - Wrong

div[class='category'] and .text() ='Dashboards One'

2. <li class=""category"> <Div> Settings One</div><li/>

    <li class=""category"> <Div> Settings Two</div><li/>

    <li class=""category"> <Div> Settings Three</div><li/>

Thanks

[derekmw]

Have you tried this:

div:contains('Dashboards One')

[SeleniumMember]

I remember contains was removed from css a while ago. So, it doesn't work.

[Sonia saini]

Try this:

First you see in chrome developer tool are you getting text or not with below css? if not then modify little bit.

$(". category > li").text();

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[SeleniumMember]

I tried this JQuery in Chrome $(". category > li").text();
Result - ""

I changed it a bit and tried few things, either I get "" or [].

[Doug Dragon]

In python you can use ".text":

first_div_text = browser.find_element_by_css_selector("div.class").text

Hope that helps,

-Doug

[SeleniumMember]

The JQuery ('.category:contains("Dashboards One")') worked however, since there is no contains in CSS, still no luck yet.

Thank you

On Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at 8:25:35 AM UTC-5, SeleniumMember wrote:

[Shawn McCarthy]

To find an element by it's text, I use xpath.

[SeleniumMember]

Our Products support IE, FF, and Chrome. Since xpath is not supported in IE, I am trying to use css selector for all. I would use xpath if it worked well in IE as I am familiar with it.

Is there really no way to select a text inside a div using CSS selector ?

On Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at 8:25:35 AM UTC-5, SeleniumMember wrote:

[Doug Dragon]

You should be able to still use the ".text" I mentioned above. Something like this works just fine for me:

from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
div_elements = browser.find_elements_by_css_selector("div.category")

for element in div_elements:
  if "Dashboards One" in element.text:
    # Do something
    print("Found 'Dashboards One")
    break

-Doug

[derekmw]

have you tried xpath?  We use xpath for a lot of automation against all 3 browsers and rarely find any issues where it doesn't work across all 3 (including IE).

[SeleniumMember]

Yes, in the past I used xpath with Selenium RC. xpath was super slow on IE and tests never finished on IE. Because of that I am trying to use css selector with Selenium WebDriver. Unless things have changed with WebDriver and xpath in IE.

On Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at 8:25:35 AM UTC-5, SeleniumMember wrote:

[derekmw]

yes, xpath is slower but I wouldn't say that slow.  We try to use CSS where possible for speed but use xpath when it makes sense - for example we have a radio button that has dynamic id (and no other attributes).  So we locate this through xpath using the label, and then traverse to the 'yes'/'no' selection. (like - //label[contains(text(), 'Have this been verified')]/..//*[text()='No']

I would at least try xpath for cases like this and see how the speed is.  You may be pleasantly surprised.

[Oscar Rieken]

I think the simplest solution would be to talk to your dev team and ask them to add an id to those items, or checkout the code and add them yourself.

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[SeleniumMember]

Thank you all for your responses. I have decided to use css and xpath mix and match for now. I did notice that whether its css or xpath, Selenium test runs super slow in IE. I am not sure if anyone else has run into this issue as well.

Thanks

On Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at 8:25:35 AM UTC-5, SeleniumMember wrote:

[Jim Evans]

Assuming you're using WebDriver, what do you mean by "super slow?" What version(s) of Internet Explorer? All? Just one? What version of Selenium are you using? Is it every WebDriver operation, or just a few, like sendKeys? Are you using 32-bit or 64-bit Windows? What IEDriverServer.exe are you using (version *and* 32-bit vs. 64-bit)? I reject outright the notion that IE is "just slow" without further supporting evidence.

[Anjana Manandhar]

So, far I have tested only IE version 11.
I am using Selenium "selenium-server-standalone-2.45.0". I noticed the slowness mainly in the sendKeys. I haven't done a lot of testing with IE11 after seeing this.

Windows 7 - 64-bit
IEDriverServer - 64-bit

Thanks

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[Jim Evans]

I suspected as much. Keystrokes are very slow in IE10 and 11 if you're using the 64-bit IEDriverServer.exe. The workaround is to use the 32-bit server. For a full technical discussion of why this is so, and why there's not going to be a "fix" for this issue, please see http://jimevansmusic.blogspot.com/2014/09/screenshots-sendkeys-and-sixty-four.html

[SeleniumMember]

Thanks Jim for the workaround. I tried that 32-bit driver as you suggested, my test logins to application way faster than the 64-bit driver, however it wont find the element. So, I am stuck.

On Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at 8:25:35 AM UTC-5, SeleniumMember wrote:

[Milan Yadav]

Try  $(".category").textContent in console.