Get text from link - selenium python

Question

I'm trying to get "Home" text from

<li class="active"><a href="#">Home</a></li>

I tried

element = self.browser.find_element_by_class_name('active')
print element.find_element_by_tag_name('a').text

but it returns empty string. What am I missing here?

Amey · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-22 18:45:16Z

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Do it using CSS - .find_element_by_css_selector("li.active a"), or using xpath .find_element_by_xpath("//li[@class='active']/a")

So this is how it would like finally

element = self.browser.find_element_by_css_selector("li.active a")
print element.text

answered Jun 22, 2013 at 18:45

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2 Comments

krisk Over a year ago

Ok I finally found the real reason of my problem. I'm using twitter.github.io/bootstrap framework and when browser window is small it hides menu, and that's why I got blank text. Adding maximize_window() solved my problem. @amey thanks for your answer still very helpful as I'm a selenium beginner.

AdamMc331 Over a year ago

I had a similar problem to OP, I was trying to reference links that were part of like a sub-menu, and were therefore not visible on the screen. When I preformed the necessary actions to make them visible, I was able to read the text.

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