How to get the text from div which contains other WebElement along with actual text?

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I am stuck in to automate one of the functionality in my current project using Selenium TestNG. There is scenario where I want to get the text (The answer you entered was not correct.) from the div given in the source code. I am using element.getText() method to get the content but I am not able to get the text it carries.Any help would be appreciated.Thanks in advanced.

<div class="error">
<h2 class="visually-hidden">Error message</h2>
<div class="icon">
<svg version="1.1" height="24" viewBox="0 0 64 64">
</div>
The answer you entered was not correct.
</div>

@Murthi Thank you for quick response, I am using CSS Selector (.error) — JD Behat Test, Sep 15 '17 at 12:17
@NimishaMolia I am using java, This would be great if you could give the same approach in java. Thank you for response. `element.getText()` is not working — JD Behat Test, Sep 15 '17 at 12:20
Please go to this post [extract content from div](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6026615/how-to-extract-content-from-div-tag-java). May be this will solve your problem. — Vaisakh PS, Sep 15 '17 at 12:31
Perfect :) This is what I was looking for. A big Thank you @VaisakhPS — JD Behat Test, Sep 15 '17 at 12:41

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 15 '17 at 12:48

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You can get test using this...

   String text=  driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@class='error']/h2/div")).getText();
 //print text

answered Sep 15 '17 at 12:48

Zakaria Shahed

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 15 '17 at 12:14

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You should be fine with:

// Assuming driver is instance of your WebDriver object
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.error")).getText();

answered Sep 15 '17 at 12:14

Kudin

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How to get the text from div which contains other WebElement along with actual text?

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