How do I get this div tag using selenium webdriver?

Question

<div id="ctl00_ContentHolder_vs_ValidationSummary" class="errorblock">
    <p><strong>The following errors were found:</strong></p>
    <ul><input type="hidden" Name="SummaryErrorCmsIds" Value="E024|E012|E014" />
        <li>Please select a title.</li>
        <li>Please key in your first name.</li>
        <li>Please key in your last name.</li>
    </ul>
</div>

I want to capture the text having value of E024 E012 and E014 and write it in to an Excel file.

I tried the following but it doesn't work.

string val1 = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//div[contains(@class, 'errorblock'/ value = 'E024|E012|E014'")).Text;

How can I do this?

I don't understand what do you want to capture? The value of 'Value' parameter? Or something else? — JacekM, Aug 21 '12 at 23:00
Yes I want to capture the value of Value ie Please select a title , Please key in your first name and Please key in your last name . These value to be captured and write it in to excel — user1603518, Aug 22 '12 at 08:22

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 22 '12 at 05:26

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In java -

String x = driver.findElement(By.name("SummaryErrorCmsIds")).getAttribute("Value"));

answered Aug 22 '12 at 05:26

some_other_guy

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Hi I tried getting only the null value in String X. can you please suggest any other way ? – user1603518 Aug 22 '12 at 08:46
Yes the name is correct , you can see my html code in the question.I want to capture the value of Value ie Please select a title , Please key in your first name and Please key in your last name . These value to be captured and write it in to excel. But string X returning Null value – user1603518 Aug 22 '12 at 12:35
why don't you add id to your li elements like
and find by id? It should work.

some_other_guy

Aug 22 '12 at 13:19

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 04 '15 at 09:07

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Better way is to use XPATH

 driver.FindElement(By.XPath("...\li")).Text; (OR)

 driver.FindElement(By.XPath("...\li")).GetAttribute("value");

answered May 04 '15 at 09:07

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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Your problem is you're selecting the wrong elements. I have no idea what your html looks like but try looking into FindElements and try doing a lookup by 'li'

Take a look here: Using Selenium 2's IWebDriver to interact with elements on the page

edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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answered Aug 21 '12 at 23:38

Greg

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Yes , I think so.. Can you please provide solution for this. My HTML code is in my question I want to capture the value of Value ie Please select a title , Please key in your first name and Please key in your last name . These value to be captured and write it in to excel – user1603518 Aug 22 '12 at 08:47
I'd love to help more but see if you can use what I gave you then tell me if what you're doing works more. – Greg Aug 22 '12 at 16:52

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 22 '12 at 10:45

I am not sure if this is what you meant but my example solution would be:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.className("errorblock")).findElement(By.tagName("ul"));
List<WebElement> values = element.findElements(By.tagName("li"))

for (WebElement value : values)
{
   String valueString = value.getText();
   //write to excel or whatever
}

Frigik · Answer 5 · 2012-09-02T16:08:57.877

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Try this:

    var div = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//div[contains(@id, 'ValidationSummary')]"));
    var targetElement = div.FindElement(By.XPath("//ul[contains(@name, 'SummaryErrorCmsIds')]"));
// or var targetElement = div.FindElement(By.TagName("input"))

And then get info you need from this element.

edited Sep 02 '12 at 16:08

answered Sep 02 '12 at 15:37

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score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Oct 07 '16 at 10:15

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IN C# it should be as follows.

String var1= driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//div[contains(@id, 'ValidationSummary')]")).Text;

edited Oct 07 '16 at 10:15

Martin Frank

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answered Nov 29 '12 at 11:06

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How do I get this div tag using selenium webdriver?

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