How to retrieve link innertext using xpath?

[sbtang]

Hi folks, i hope this is an easy question.

So i am trying to use selenium get_attribute to get the innertext of a
link? For example,if my link is defined as

<a href=www.yahoo.com>YAHOO</a> how would i use get_attribute to get
YAHOO returned?

So i have tried the following

selenium.getAttribute("//a[contains(@href, 'list')]@href")
selenium.getAttribute("//a[contains(@href, 'list')]@text")
selenium.getAttribute("//a[contains(@href, 'list')]@innertext")

and they all fail.. is it easy to get what i am looking for? It makes
sense to be?

Thanks,
Steve

[Pavandeep Puddupakkam]

Try this selenium.getText("//a[@href]")

For more information on using xpath in selenium visit -
http://www.seleniumwiki.com/?s=xpath

[BillR]

To debug, you might try printing

selenium_.getXpathCount(("//a[contains(@href, 'list')]").intValue();

[mam_p]

I'm completely confused where that "list" is coming from. It's not in
the page's code snippet you sent, so why is it in your Selenium
snippet? Something more like this....

selenium.getText("//a[contains(@href,'yahoo')]")

seems like what you need to me. Is the "list" you've used an attempt
to parameterize what you send in to Selenium?

--mam-p

On Dec 7, 12:28 pm, sbtang <sbt...@gmail.com> wrote: