How to assert elements contains text in Selenium using JUnit

Question

I have a page that I know contains a certain text at a certain xpath. In firefox I use the following code to assert that the text is present:

assertEquals("specific text", driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath)).getText());

I'm asserting step 2 in a form and confirming that a certain attachment has been added to the form. However, when I use the same code in Chrome the displayed output is different but does contain the specific text. I get the following error:

org.junit.ComparisonFailure: expected:<[]specific text> but was:<[C:\fakepath\]specific text>

Instead of asserting something is true (exactly what I'm looking for) I'd like to write something like:

assert**Contains**("specific text", driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath)).getText());

The code above does not work obviously but I can't find how to get this done.

Using Eclipse, Selenium WebDriver and Java

I believe this question was answered [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1092219/assertcontains-on-strings-in-junit — stackhelper101, Oct 01 '15 at 12:26

score 18 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 20 '17 at 09:16

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Use:

String actualString = driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath")).getText();
assertTrue(actualString.contains("specific text"));

You can also use the following approach, using assertEquals:

String s = "PREFIXspecific text";
assertEquals("specific text", s.substring(s.length()-"specific text".length()));

to ignore the unwanted prefix from the string.

edited Feb 20 '17 at 09:16

Ripon Al Wasim

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answered Oct 01 '15 at 12:24

ROMANIA_engineer

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Thank you! I used the following and that worked fine: assertTrue(driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath")).getText().contains("specific text")); – Hugo Oct 01 '15 at 12:41
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You can optionally add a second parameter, with a custom error message for if it fails. For example: `assertTrue(s.contains("specific text"), "String did not contain the required text.");` – Andrio Oct 01 '15 at 12:49

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 22 '19 at 22:26

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You can also use this code:

String actualString = driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath")).getText();
Assert.assertTrue(actualString.contains("specific text"));

edited Aug 22 '19 at 22:26

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answered Aug 03 '17 at 18:55

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 16 '18 at 12:16

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Two Methods assertEquals and assertTrue could be used. Here is the usage

String actualString = driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath")).getText();

String expectedString = "ExpectedString";

assertTrue(actualString.contains(expectedString));

answered Aug 16 '18 at 12:16

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I know this is an old post but has anyone done the same thing in C#? I would love to see that code. – user1622681 Jul 07 '21 at 17:17

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 01 '23 at 23:39

It's not directly and assert however and other way is to use a wait.until and ExpectedCondition, then if condition is not satisfied the test will fail:

    import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
    import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
    import org.openqa.selenium.support.FindBy;
    import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
    import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
    
    @FindBy(xpath = "xpath")
    private WebElement xpathElementToCheckText;
      
    public void checkElementText() {
       WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10); // timeout in seconds
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.textToBePresentInElement(xpathElementToCheckText,"specific text"));
    }

How to assert elements contains text in Selenium using JUnit

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