Python selenium find_element_by_css_selector() not working

Question

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('http://www.google.com')
content = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('title')
print content

I can't seem to get any content by any means(tag_name, class_name, name...) What is the problem with this code?

Just this:<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="4aff1f03-26fc-4ddb-9181-534d24ecd0d8", element="{5c5b4c91-740d-40d3-a888-c05a43a1d1e0}")> — Rastko Jović
– Rastko Jović, Commented Feb 11, 2016 at 14:05
Then it is working fine. You want to read the text then you should use print content.text With the WebElement you can do any of the actions mentioned [here] (selenium-python.readthedocs.org/…) — Obsidian
– Obsidian, Commented Feb 11, 2016 at 14:08

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:07:30Z

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There doesn't seem to be any problem with the code. The is element being identified correctly by your code.

content = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('title')
print content.tag_name

This should confirm that you have indeed located a web element with title tag. The content.text does not return anything since the title element is not part of the page itself. (Similar trouble discussed here in Java)

If you're trying to print the title of the page, use the following driver field

print(driver.title)

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:07

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answered Feb 11, 2016 at 15:27

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Ben C · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-11 14:09:22Z

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Your output is correct because you are trying to print out the literal web element, not the text contained within it. It is not an error, you're just not printing out the correct thing.

Change your last line to this:

print content.text

answered Feb 11, 2016 at 14:09

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Rastko Jović Over a year ago

content.text does not return the title of the page.

Ben C Over a year ago

Why not just use driver.title if its the page title you're after? No need to go looking in the DOM.

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