How to get text found between span selenium

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Inspect element from Google Chrome:

<div class="form-style-abc">

   <fieldset>

    <legend><span class="number">*</span>Search Zone</legend>

I need to retrieve the "Search Zone", however, I’m unable to perform the search and getText(). I had to perform the following on Eclipse but getting an error:

Code:

String HeaderTxt = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[@class = 'number']")).getText();

System.out.println(HeaderTxt);


Below is the error message:

org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//span[@class = 'number']"}
Jun 18, 2018 in Selenium by Martin
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6 answers to this question.

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As you are seeing NoSuchElementException.

Possibly you need to wait for the element inducing WebDriverWait as follows :

WebElement HeaderTxtElem = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//div[@class='form-style-abc']/fieldset/legend[(self::legend) and not (@class='number')]")));

System.out.println(HeaderTxtElem.getText());

For further understanding, you can refer to the Selenium Certification.

answered Jun 18, 2018 by Samarpit
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String HeaderTxt = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[@class = 'number']")).text();

VIA PYTHON 3+

answered Jan 28, 2019 by TazzProductions
Perfect. This works :) Thanks
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The text "Search Zone" is not part of the span tag. Instead it is part of the legend tag.
The span tag holds the text "*".

In Python 2.7:
"""elem == name of element"""
elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//legend").text
print elem[1:]
answered Feb 28, 2019 by Trying to Figure
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You can use By. XPath with the code you have​ Inner text is text between the opening tags and closing tags. For example: <a>I Am Inner Text</a> In above example, texts “I Am Inner Text” between opening and closing tags are called inner text of web element “a”.

answered Dec 15, 2020 by Gitika
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The text is in the <h2> tag, not the <span> tag. Try

driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='iselmf-folder-detail']/h2")).getText();
answered Dec 15, 2020 by Roshni
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Maybe the span element is hidden. If that's the case then use the innerHtml property:

By.css:

String kk = wd.findElement(By.cssSelector("#customSelect_3 span.selectLabel"))
              .getAttribute("innerHTML");

By.xpath:

String kk = wd.findElement(By.xpath(
                   "//*[@id='customSelect_3']/.//span[contains(@class,'selectLabel')]"))
              .getAttribute("innerHTML");

"/.//" means "look under the selected element".

answered Dec 15, 2020 by Rajiv
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