How to get text of element that is not inside html tag using Selenium webdriver

Question

Below is the html and I want to get text "Conference USA"

<li class="list-unstyled" style="background-color: transparent;">
    <input id="account" type="checkbox" checked="checked" value="101" name="account" 
    style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"/> Conference USA                                 
</li>

<li class="list-unstyled" style="background-color: transparent;"> <input id="account" type="checkbox" checked="checked" value="101" name="account" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"/> Conference USA <ul> </li> — Rakesh Raut
– Rakesh Raut, Commented Jul 7, 2016 at 14:16
Possible duplicate of Find element by Xpath which contains text — JeffC
– JeffC, Commented Jul 7, 2016 at 14:46
There are many questions like this one. Please do a search of SO or just google the question and you will find many answers that you can try. — JeffC
– JeffC, Commented Jul 7, 2016 at 14:46
Do you want to get text or locate input element by that text??? — Saurabh Gaur
– Saurabh Gaur, Commented Jul 8, 2016 at 2:51

Saurabh Gaur · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-08 05:09:30Z

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According to your question and provided comments it's not clear what you want actually.

So if you want li element with using text Conference USA try as below :-

WebElement liElement = driver.FindElement(By.Xpath("//li[contains(.,'Conference USA')]"));

or if you want input element with using text Conference USA try as below :-

WebElement inputElement = driver.FindElement(By.Xpath("//li[contains(.,'Conference USA')]/input"));

or if you want text Conference USA of li element try as below :-

string text = driver.FindElement(By.Xpath("//li[./input[@type = 'checkbox' and @value='101']]")).Text;

Hope it will help you...:)

answered Jul 8, 2016 at 5:09

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Saurabh Gaur · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-08 06:01:49Z

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You should be able to uniquely locate li and getText() should work. For example in java it will look like:

String accountName = 
    driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//li[./input[@id='account']]")).getText();

EDIT c#:

driver.FindElement(By.Xpath(".//li[./input[@id='account']]")).Text;

edited Jul 8, 2016 at 6:01

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answered Jul 7, 2016 at 14:29

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Rakesh Raut Over a year ago

Id= account is not unique in this case and I actually want to select li on the basis of text

user861594 Over a year ago

what is your problem? do you want to get text or locate an element using known text? if you have unique and known value you can write .//li[./input[@value=value]]

Rakesh Raut Over a year ago

i want to get text, but as you can see, that text is not inside "input" tag and that the reason I am not able to get that text. I am trying to locate that element "input" element using this text.

Rakesh Raut Over a year ago

Thanks for your time though :)

abhishek narayan · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-04 09:05:42Z

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Try getting "innerHTML" attribute from the li webelement like below, I had same situation earlier and it worked for me:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//li[contains(@class,'list-unstyled')]")).getAttribute("innerHTML");

answered Oct 4, 2019 at 9:05

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