Why text, innerText, innerHTML return empty in selenium

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<div class="SdTitle-sc-iwgcvh dmugDV title">#24 Information Revolution</div>

I want to get the text in this div. I was using this code:

title = driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div/div[2]/div[4]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div/div[1]").get_attribute("innerText")

But it returns an empty string, I tried text(), get_attribute("innerText"), get_attribute("innerHTML"). None of them works.

The element can be found by selenium. I also found this element with the xpath in chrome, which means the xpath is correct.

If I tried get_attribute('outerHTML'), it returns

<div class="SdTitle-sc-iwgcvh dmugDV title"></div>

This is so strange.

I searched on Chrome that the div with these classes only has 1.

Thank you for your help.

Can you share HTML code in text format here? or if URL is public then please share — cruisepandey
– cruisepandey, Commented May 24, 2021 at 13:29

cruisepandey · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-24 14:08:53Z

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you are using text() instead of .text

There is no such thing called get_attribute("innerText")

Update 1 :

el = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div[class^='SdTitle']"))).text
print(el)

edited May 24, 2021 at 14:08

answered May 24, 2021 at 13:30

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Shark Deng Over a year ago

I suspect the # makes selenium ignores the text.

cruisepandey Over a year ago

I can not locate this in chrome /html/body/div/div[2]/div[4]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div/div[1]

cruisepandey Over a year ago

is that element seen after login ?

Shark Deng Over a year ago

Chrome Developer Tool / Elements (command F, input the full xpath)/

Shark Deng Over a year ago

Working solution

el = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div[class^='SdTitle']"))).text print(el)

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vitaliis · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-24 13:40:04Z

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The attribute is called innerHTML Read here for more details: https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_html_innerhtml.asp

el = driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".SdTitle-sc-iwgcvh.dmugDV.title").text
el = driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".SdTitle-sc-iwgcvh.dmugDV.title").get_attribute("innerHTML")

Print to check the output. A little explanation: . is used for a class name. If there are few classes in a one html tag, you can make a locator of them divided by dot, without spaces.

answered May 24, 2021 at 13:40

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itronic1990 · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-24 13:57:58Z

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Try this

driver.find_element_by_xpath(".//div[@class='SdTitle-sc-iwgcvh dmugDV title']").get_attribute("innertext")

If not use text to get the text value from the element like this

driver.find_element_by_xpath(".//div[@class='SdTitle-sc-iwgcvh dmugDV title']").text

edited May 24, 2021 at 13:57

answered May 24, 2021 at 13:52

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vitaliis Over a year ago

This is not correct w3schools.com/jsref/prop_node_innertext.asp

BugBee · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-24 14:03:13Z

Similar issue, I found in Protractor. I too, used different ways to get the text using .getText(), innerText, innerHtml etc. But finally I tried to use tagName locator to retrieve the text. Might be below code is helps to you to implement in Selenium. Note: Below code is for Protractor

element(by.tagName('mat-chip')).getText().then(function (rowAtt) {
                console.log("Attributed Under Row Group-"+rowAtt)
                expect(rowAtt).toBe(attValues.explore.attributeValues.rowAttributes[i], 'Attribute value is not matching');
                if (rowAtt) {
                    exploreModule.attributeCheckBox().click();
                } else {
                    console.log("attribute checkbox is not present");
                }
            })

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