Selenium - How to retrieve text from a child (text) node among multiple child nodes

Question

My HTML looks like :

<div id="cc" class="col-md-6" _ngcontent-c12="">
  <h5 _ngcontent-c12="">Blah Blah</h5>
  My Answer
</div>

When I use :

driver.findElement(By.id("cc")).getText()

It returns me "Blah Blah My Answer"

I need only "My Answer" to be returned. Is there a way to do that through Selenium WebDriver?

Possible duplicate of [How to use selenium get Text from an element not including it's sub-element](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39741076/how-to-use-selenium-get-text-from-an-element-not-including-its-sub-element) — achAmháin, Apr 26 '18 at 06:45

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 27 '18 at 13:09

As per the HTML you have provided to retrieve the text My Answer you can use the following code block :

WebElement elem = driver.findElement(By.id("cc"));
String mytext = (String)((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("return arguments[0].childNodes[2].textContent;", elem);

Selenium - How to retrieve text from a child (text) node among multiple child nodes

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