How to capture the text value of following code?

Question

How to get the following text value of 50000 using xpath:

 <span class="XYZ">
    <span class="Value"/>
   50000
 </span>

I tried with

driver.findElement(By.xpath(//span[@class='xyz'])).getText()

but its not working.

XML and XPath are case sensitive. Try changing `xyz` to `XYZ` — Andrea Corbellini, Sep 09 '17 at 15:52

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 09 '17 at 16:17

<span class="Value"/> is invalid HTML. So you'll get some unexpected behavior.

Using Chrome, inspect this fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/kqta82pd/

You'll see that Chrome automatically tries to correct the HTML for you. It removes the \> and adds a closing </span> tag.

So your 5000 is now contained within the <span class="Value"> element.

So the following selector should work:

driver.findElement(By.xpath(//span[@class='Value'])).getText()

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 09 '17 at 16:35

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Your xpath is correct but its value should be "XYZ" not "xyz" incorrect try this:

 driver.findElement(By.xpath(//span[@class='xyz'])).getText()

or use

 driver.findElement(By.xpath(//span[contains(text(),'50000')])).getText()

answered Sep 09 '17 at 16:35

iamsankalp89

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 10 '17 at 07:11

First, the /> of second span is incorrect, I think you desired shoud like this:

<span class="XYZ">
    <span class="Value">30000</span>
   50000
 </span>

Below xpath can directly choose the 5000 from html code snippet I give out at above.

//span[@class='XYZ']/text()[contains(., '5000')]

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