Webdriver - getting div value using java

Question

Html

<div class="rc-anchor-light">
<div id="accessible-status" class="rc-anchor-aria-status" aria-hidden="true">requires verification.</div>
</div>

My expected

Extract the text from inside the div "requires verification."

tried below locator, but i'm not getting my expected.

unique id so i tired with id getting empty result

String accessText = driver.findElement(By.id("accessible-status")).getText();

using class name getting empty result

String accessText = driver.findElement(By.className("rc-anchor-aria-status")).getText();

Please suggest me how to get the value.

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-19 13:58:37Z

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Text content of target div node might be generated dynamically. Try to implement ExplicitWait for element with any text:

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(webDriver, 10);
WebElement divNode = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//div[@id='accessible-status' and normalize-space()]"));
String accessText = divNode.getText();

If element has text from the very beggining, but it is just hidden, getText() will not return you text. In this case you may try

String accessText = driver.findElement(By.id("accessible-status")).getAttribute("textContent");

edited Feb 19, 2018 at 13:58

answered Feb 19, 2018 at 13:25

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undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-19 14:12:27Z

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As per the HTML you have shared to extract the text requires verification. from the div you need to use a Locator Strategy to identify the WebElement uniquely and induce WebDriverWait with ExpectedConditions set as visibilityOfElementLocated(By locator) for the WebElement to be visible in the HTML DOM and finally use getAttribute() method to to extract the text. You can use the following line of code :

System.out.println(new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//div[@class='rc-anchor-light']/div[@class='rc-anchor-aria-status' and @id='accessible-status']"))).getAttribute("innerHTML"));

edited Feb 19, 2018 at 14:12

answered Feb 19, 2018 at 13:51

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