get css pseudo-element content with python or selenium

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I am working with Selenium and Python to automate a web service. I need to extract the text "test" from below, but am having difficulty figuring out how, or even if this is possible in selenium, or with a python library.

<label class="checkbox" for="checkbox1"data reactid=".0.1.0.1.$modal.$=10.0.1:1.5.1">
    before::
    "test"    
    ::after
</label>

Basically there is a checkbox and next to the checkbox displays the text in the pseudo-element. I am able to click on the checkbox, but I need to display the text to the user.

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-29 23:54:41Z

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The .text should handle that:

driver.find_element_by_css_selector("label.checkbox").text

answered Jan 29, 2016 at 23:54

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sal Over a year ago

Thanks @alecxe! I've been reading a lot of your posts to help me do this. That works!

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