Getting a hidden text from a HTML in JAVA using Selenium and WebDriver

Question

I'm trying to get a text from a html page which is into a hidden span.

<span class="hide"> Nike </span>

I've tried something like this:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".product-page.clearfix > .hide > span"));
String content = (String)((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("arguments[0].innerHTML;", element);
product.setBrand(content)

I've tried also with "return arguments[0].innerHTML;" and with "element.getText()"

I understood that I can use pure javascript, but this is a simple example, I need to use WebDriver and Java code for more complicated pages.

java.lang.ClassCastException: package.driver.DhlWebDriver cannot be cast to org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor

Possible duplicate of [How to read text from hidden element with Selenium WebDriver?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13047056/how-to-read-text-from-hidden-element-with-selenium-webdriver) — JeffC, Nov 03 '15 at 19:08

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 04 '15 at 10:43

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You just need to get a proper attribute like following:
element.GetAttribute("textContent");
Should work well.

I guess getAttribute for JAVA - I work in C#.

answered Nov 04 '15 at 10:43

Bart Wojtala

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 04 '15 at 10:25

Try this it will work

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".product-page.clearfix > .hide > span"));
String content = (String) ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("return arguments[0].innerHTML", element);
System.out.println(content);

I'm using return arguments[0].innerHTML

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 05 '18 at 20:03

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I recommand to use:

JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)element;
String content=(String) js.executeScript("return document.getElementsByClassName('hide').value;");
System.out.println(content);

answered Sep 05 '18 at 20:03

BOB

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Getting a hidden text from a HTML in JAVA using Selenium and WebDriver

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