Webdriver: getText() returning empty string

[Smita Sinha]

Hi All,

My HTML code is:

<span id="A0948:iceform:j_idt247" class="iceOutTxt  alert">Error text</span>

I want to get the text "Error text"

My code:

WebElement webEl = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[@id = 'A0948:iceform:j_idt247']"));

System.out.println("Get Text:"+webEl.getText());

The output is null

Get Text:

Someone please help me in resolving this.

Thanks,

Smita

[Peter Gale]

What happens if you try to get the class attribute of this element?

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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:13:12 +0530
Subject: [selenium-users] Webdriver: getText() returning empty string
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[Smita Sinha]

Hi Peter,

I am getting the class attribute.

O/P

Class: iceOutTxt  alert

Code:

WebElement webEl = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[@id = 'A0948:iceform:j_idt247']"));

System.out.println("Class:"+ webEl.getAttribute("class") );

Thanks,

Smita

[Smita Sinha]

I even tried this.

 text = (String) ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("document.getElementById(\"A0948:iceform:j_idt247\").innerText");

 System.out.println("Text Inside:"+text);

O/P

Text Inside:null

Don`t know whats wrong.

Thanks,

Smita

[Mark Collin]

Are there two elements on the page with the same ID (A bug if there are)?  If so you could be pulling the text from the wrong one.

[Smita Sinha]

No Mark,

There is only one element on the page with this id (Using firefinder) and 

webEl.isEnabled() returns true.

-Smita

[Peter Gale]

Does the same type of code work on other SPAN elements?

I'm not sure to what extent span tags are different to other tags and only affect part of the text in the parent, i.e. they can contain no text themselves.

Try to get the text of the parent object:

WebElement webEl = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[@id = 'A0948:iceform:j_idt247']/.."));
System.out.println("Get Text:"+webEl.getText());

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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:43:31 +0530
Subject: Re: [selenium-users] Webdriver: getText() returning empty string

[Smita Sinha]

Thankyou Mark and Peter,

Clicking on the element before getText() has resolved this issue.

-Smita

[madeja madeja]

Hi, this click totaly help me... thanks

Dňa utorok, 24. júla 2012 12:02:41 UTC+2 sayhi_...@yahoo.com napísal(-a):

[Ripon Al Wasim]

Hi,

Can you please provide the HTML code snippet for this?

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