How to select this title from xpath

Sangam Sood

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Jun 17, 2019, 9:06:58 AM6/17/19

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Hi i want to get "Total of 23 record(s) in 2 page(s) " this msg as output

This is the xpath from which i want to select text

i tried --

System.out.println(driver

.findElement(By.xpath("/html[1]/body[1]/div[6]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/a[2]"))

.getAttribute("value"));

but get null as output

Jagu Lakshmi Pavani

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Jun 17, 2019, 9:51:24 AM6/17/19

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HI,
Please use this xpath
//a[@data-original-title=''Total of 23 record(s) in 2 page(s)']

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Jayshree Braley

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Jun 17, 2019, 10:39:43 AM6/17/19

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Use getTitle() method or getText()

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John Doe

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Jun 18, 2019, 5:20:18 AM6/18/19

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You need to get data-original-title attribute, not value, something like:

System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html[1]/body[1]/div[6]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/a[2]")).getAttribute("data-original-title"));

Normally you should not use absolute XPath locators as they might be very fragile/sensitive to any markup changes, maybe you could simplify the XPath expression to be shorter like:

//a[@href='#pageshow']

there is also xpath attribute which you potentially could use like:

//a[@xpath='1']

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