How to retrieve part of a text of an element using Selenium WebDriver and Python?

Question

I'm using Selenium WebDriver and Python 3 and I'm trying to retrieve part of the text of the element.

<div id="ConfirmInfo" class="row">
                    <h3>Confirmation #: S1234567890 </h3>
</div>

How can I retrieve just "S1234567890" without "Confirmation #: "?

YellowTetrahedron · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-28 22:44:33Z

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element_text = driver.find_element_by_tag_name('h3').text
#split element_text into ['Confirmation', '#:', 'S1234567890']
split_text = element_text.split(' ') 
confirmation_num = split_text[2]

Selenium provides you with tools to get the text from an element, but if you want to get only a part of the text from the element, AFAIK you have to get the text from the element and then manipulate the string until you have the part you want.

answered Dec 28, 2016 at 22:44

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