How to get value of content attribute from span class

Question

My diction is going to be wrong, so forgive the misnomers. I'm looking for the text of the "content" within the span class:

<span class="rating-label" content="5">

I'm looking for "5"

I've tried

driver.find_element_by_class_name('rating-label').text

But I do not receive the "5" back anywhere in that text.

I've also tried

driver.find_elements_by_class_name('rating-label').get_attribute("outerHTML")
driver.find_elements_by_class_name('rating-label').get_attribute("innerHTML")

I've checked the other questions about this, but if I missed one feel free to show me.

Thanks

Answer 1

The content attribute is having the value 5. So to extract the value you have to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "span.rating-label"))).get_attribute("content"))
  

• Using XPATH:

  print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[@class='rating-label']"))).get_attribute("content"))
  

• Note : You have to add the following imports :

  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC