Get text from XPath located Element using Selenium WebDriver with JavaScript

I am trying to find an element using xpath and get the elements text value.

For example, I can find the element using xpath in the following way

driver.findElement(webdriver.By.xpath("//div/span)); 

But I want to get the text of this particular element by using JavaScript.

HTML content is like below

<div><span>Inner Text</span></div> 

4 Answers

The function you want is getText().

String text = driver.findElement(webdriver.By.xpath("//div/span")).getText(); 

const By = webdriver.By; driver.findElement(By.xpath('//div/span')) .then(span => span.getText()) .then(text => console.log(text)) 

Most of the actions in the webdriver for node/'javascript' return a promise, you have to do a .then to actually get the values.

WebDriver driver; String getText = driver.findElement(By.xpath("your xpath")).getText(); 

This will return the text within that element.

var element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath")).getText(); console.log(element); 

Not tested, but this will do.