How to get text from by python webdriver?

Question

Is there any method for me to get the text "ABCD" as below HTML? I just know get the emement , but have no idea about to get its text.

element1= find_element_by_xpath("//caption/em")

Then how can I get "ABCD", is there any method like gettext()?

<table class='1'>
    <caption>
        <em> ABCD </em>
    </caption>
 </table>

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 12 '13 at 11:07

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Access the text using text attribute:

>>> element1.text
u'ABCD'

answered Jul 12 '13 at 11:07

falsetru

thanks. I've resolved my poeblem with get_attribute('innerHTML') – Stella Jul 13 '13 at 04:52

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 13 '13 at 04:55

0

element1= find_element_by_xpath("//caption/em")
element1.get_attribute('innerHTML')

And I found Beautiful Soup will be more better to get text.

answered Jul 13 '13 at 04:55

Stella

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