I’m trying to get the text inside of <pre>
tag and I have tried with get_attribute('text')
, get_attribute('value')
, .text()
, .value()
, get_attribute("innerHTML")
but I keep failing:
Snapshot:
This is the code that i’m using:
import unittest import time from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys driver = webdriver.Chrome("chromedriver.exe") driver.get("###") elem=driver.find_element(By.ID, "login_admin").click() elem=driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[15]/div[2]/form/div[1]/input").send_keys("###") elem=driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[15]/div[2]/form/div[2]/input").send_keys("###") elem=driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[15]/div[3]/div/button[1]").click() elem=driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/nav/div/div[1]/button/span[3]').click() time.sleep(2) elem = WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/nav/div/div[2]/ul/li/a'))) time.sleep(2) elem=driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/nav/div/div[2]/ul/li/a').click() time.sleep(2) elem=driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div[3]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/span[1]/input[2]').send_keys('###') time.sleep(1) elem=driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div[3]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/span[2]/button').click() print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='output']/pre[text()]"))).get_attribute("innerHTML"))
And this is what it says when print:
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Answer
To print the text within the <pre>
tag you can use either of the following locator strategies:
Using css_selector and
get_attribute("innerHTML")
:print(driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.output > pre").get_attribute("innerHTML"))
Using xpath and text attribute:
print(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//div[@class='output']/pre[contains(., 'ContactUri')]").text)
To extract the text ideally you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:
Using CSS_SELECTOR and text attribute:
print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.output > pre"))).text)
Using XPATH and
get_attribute("innerHTML")
:print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='output']/pre[contains(., 'ContactUri')]"))).get_attribute("innerHTML"))
Note : You have to add the following imports :
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
You can find a relevant discussion in How to retrieve the text of a WebElement using Selenium – Python