Python Selenium Always get empty text

Question

I am trying to get the text in the elements with li class ="tooltip icon-bed" from the below html and I expect to get value "2" in this example but I always get an empty value instead.

<div class="listing-info-mobile">
     <p class="icon-location">
                Residencial            </p>
     <div class="details">
         <p class="price">
                   1,654,080                </p>
         <ul class="features">
                 <li original-title="Recámaras" class="tooltip icon-bed">2</li>
                 <li original-title="Baños" class="tooltip icon-bath">1</li>
                 <li original-title="Superficie (m²)" class="tooltip icon-building-area">69</li>
         </ul>
      </div>
 </div>

Here is the part of my code that is trying to get the text:

extract=driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//ul[@class='features']")
for item in extract:
            print item.find_element_by_class(".//li[@class='tooltip icon-bed']").text

It seems to find the elements but text is always empty. Any idea?

Because the text needs to be directly in that element, features does not contains any text, contains other elements and those elements contain text. — lauda
– lauda, Commented Nov 24, 2016 at 14:59
Try once in one line as driver.find_element_by_css_selector("ul.features > li.icon-bed").get_attribute("textContent") and let me know — Saurabh Gaur
– Saurabh Gaur, Commented Nov 24, 2016 at 15:00

Rahul Kote · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-25 07:19:09Z

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driver.find_element_by_css_selector("ul.features > li.tooltip.icon-bed").get_attribute("innerHTML") This should do the trick :)

edited Nov 25, 2016 at 7:19

answered Nov 25, 2016 at 7:11

Rahul Kote

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Anand Desai · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-09 05:52:58Z

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get_attribute("innerHTML") worked for me. Apparently, when you are using Django/Python, .text is not working. It always comes as blank. However, innerHTML is coming as expected and hence assertion works.

answered Jun 9, 2019 at 5:52

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