How to get text of an HTML-Element with Selenium/Node.js

Question

Unfortunately I did not find any existing solution for my problem on stackoverflow. So, can someone help.

I want to get the text of an html-element. I tried this:

var element = driver.findElement(webdriver.By.className("credits")).getText();

console.log(element);

Unfortunately this did not work so far.

Can yo post the html that you are trying to get the text from? — smit9234
– smit9234, Commented Aug 15, 2017 at 17:59
Set var element = driver.findElement(webdriver.By.className("credits")).innerHTML — Luke Danger Kozorosky
– Luke Danger Kozorosky, Commented Aug 15, 2017 at 17:59

NarendraR · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-16 05:54:24Z

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Someone posted an answer and deleted it seconds after it...thank you anyway:

For you information, this works fine for me:

var textPromise = driver.findElement(webdriver.By.className("credits")).getText();
textPromise.then((text) => {
  console.log(text);
});

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answered Aug 15, 2017 at 18:10

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Anh Quan Nguyen · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-24 10:51:46Z

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Try this instead if you are inside an async function:

var element = await driver.findElement(webdriver.By.className("credits")).getText();

console.log(element);

answered Sep 24, 2020 at 10:51

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Makan dianka · Accepted Answer · 2024-06-20 10:12:34Z

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You have to be inside of async function and use await

let elementName = await this.driver.findElement(By.css(`.factoryListElementName`)).getText()

console.log(elementName)

answered Jun 20, 2024 at 10:12

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