I have got this HTML element in my Python (3.6.3) code (as a Selenium webelement of course):
<span class="ocenaCzastkowa masterTooltip" style="color:#000000;" alt="Kod:
pd1<br/>Opis: praca domowa<br/>Waga: 2,00<br/>Data: 12.09.2017<br/>Nauczyciel:
(NAME CENSORED)">5</span>
And I want to get the value at the end (which is 5 in this case) and I have got no idea how to get it.
Obviously, I can't use webelement.get_attribute() because I don't know the name of the attribute.
Try the following code:
span_element = driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".ocenaCzastkowa.masterTooltip")
span_element.text # This will return "5".
PS: You can also use span_element.get_attribute("value").
selenium.common.exceptions.StaleElementReferenceException: Message: stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document. I tried doing some research on this error but did not get far.
<a></a> tag element, element.get_attribute("value") returns None, but element.text does return the text inside <a> tag....To print the textContent, i.e. 5, you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:
Using css_selector:
print(driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.ocenaCzastkowa.masterTooltip").text)
Using XPath:
print(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//span[@class='ocenaCzastkowa masterTooltip']").text)
Ideally you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:
Using CSS_SELECTOR:
print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.ocenaCzastkowa.masterTooltip"))).text)
Using XPATH:
print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[@class='ocenaCzastkowa masterTooltip']"))).text)
Note: You have to add the following imports:
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
You can find a relevant discussion in How to retrieve the text of a WebElement using Selenium - Python
