Python - selenium unable to get element text with PhantomJS

Question

I can get all the text inside the other tds, except for td with class="datapid"

  <tr>
     <td class="cregion">JP</td>
     <td class="datacompany"><a href="/company/10644-tecmo">Tecmo</a></td>
     <td class="datapid">P99-00001</td>
     <td class="datapid">4960677070033</td>
     <td class="cdate">02/06/03</td>
     <td class="datarating">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>

I'm using selenium with PhantomJS 2.1.1:

driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(
"c:/phantomjs-2.1.1-windows/bin/phantomjs.exe")

Trying to get the fields, but only the datapid field is blank:

    cregions = driver.find_elements(
    By.CLASS_NAME, "cregion")
    for region in cregions:
        regions.append(region.text)

    datacompanies = driver.find_elements(
    By.CLASS_NAME, "datacompany")
    for company in datacompanies:
        publishers.append(company.find_element(By.XPATH, "a").text)

    datapids = driver.find_elements(
    By.CLASS_NAME, "datapid")
    for i in range(0, (len(datapids))):
        if i % 2:
            pids.append(datapids[i].text)  //datapids[i].text = ''

what happens with for pid in datapids: pids.append(pid.text) — Alexander Higgins
– Alexander Higgins, Commented Jul 16, 2017 at 6:48

hanabi_noir · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-17 01:20:08Z

1

After maximizing the windows:

driver.maximize_window()

now I can get the text inside the div.

I think it is because that the webdriver is not simply reading the source code, but getting it from a windows. If the node is outside the window, it could not be read by webdriver

answered Jul 17, 2017 at 1:20

hanabi_noir

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