Get Checkbox label text Selenium C#

Question

I'm trying to get the text value of checkbox label. Here is an HTML code

<div id="content" class="large-12 columns">
        <div class="example">
  <h3>Checkboxes</h3>
  <form id='checkboxes'>
    <input type="checkbox"> checkbox 1</br>
    <input type="checkbox" checked> checkbox 2
  </form>
</div>

So What I have tried so far

Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[@type='checkbox']")).Text;
Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[@type='checkbox']")).GetAttribute("value");
Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[@type='checkbox']")).GetAttribute("name");
Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[@type='checkbox']")).GetAttribute("innerText");
Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[@type='checkbox']")).GetAttribute("innerHTML");

Here is a screenshot

All this attempts return "". Any ideas how to get it or Javascript is my only option ?

Either one of them, but findelement should return first element from all elements. And see them but property Text has value ` "" ` . — Dmitriy Zhernoviy
– Dmitriy Zhernoviy, Commented Aug 13, 2018 at 2:27

Daniel Manta · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-13 00:40:27Z

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The xpath for a text following an input tag is //input[1]/following-sibling::text()[1] but there are serious limitations for Selenium to run expressions like this. It only can handle tag elements. Try to get the parent and retrieve texts from there.

string[] texts = Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//form[@id='checkboxes']"))
   .GetAttribute("innerText")
   .Split("\r\n".ToCharArray()
);

Then texts[0] returns:

checkbox 1

answered Aug 13, 2018 at 0:40

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Dmitriy Zhernoviy Over a year ago

Thanks a lot it. Really worked. I got it that the checkbox label a hard coded into a form. I believe this is not the smartest idea to design your page this way but at least I know a solution right now Screenshot of what have driver returned

Gareth · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-13 00:40:21Z

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Add an class or id attribute to the checkboxes and then try to find the element by css selector like: Driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector(""))

answered Aug 13, 2018 at 0:40

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Dmitriy Zhernoviy Over a year ago

The issue is not that I can't find it or it is not visible, but that I can't return a text value of it. link

Mahipal · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-13 01:57:07Z

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You can try following to get the required text from the two checkboxes:

Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//form[@id='checkboxes']/input[@type='checkbox'][1]")).Text
Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//form[@id='checkboxes']/input[@type='checkbox'][2]")).Text

Let me know, if above code does not work for you.

answered Aug 13, 2018 at 1:57

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Dmitriy Zhernoviy Over a year ago

Thanks. I tried this option. You can see uploaded screenshot

Mahipal Over a year ago

Could you retry with //form[@id='checkboxes']/input[@type='checkbox'][1] as the xpath for checkbox, as currently I am not sure whether the checkbox //input[@type='checkbox'][1] is one the children of //form[@id='checkboxes'] or some other one.

Dmitriy Zhernoviy Over a year ago

See a result in a screenshot Didn't work. The final answer is posted by @derloopkat . I think this is valuable informatio

Neeraj vishwakarma · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-13 17:24:13Z

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You can also use CSS Selector to get the checkbox label:

Element CheckBox = Driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("input[type='checkbox']"));

string firstChkBoxTxt = CheckBox.FirstOrDefault().GetAttribute("innerText");
string secondChkBoxTxt = CheckBox.LastOrDefault().GetAttribute("innerText");

answered Aug 13, 2018 at 17:24

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