selenium, get string value from using IWebElement definition

Question

I wanted to ask if it is possible to extract a sting from the IWebElement definition. My goal is to avoid redundancy and remove the locators from the definition (in a large file, the locators' paths are less readable compared to the aligned paths for IWebElement objects.

Example: I want to extract the value of "html body" from the public IWebElement htmlBody.

Is anyone able to help me?

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Answer 1

If I understood your problem correctly, You want to get HTML body text. One way to get whole page source is :

var source = driver.PageSource;

Then you can easily extract body text contained between and tag.