Selenium, get text from the nth same tag

Question

I'm trying to get the span text for fourth class from the following html base for a specific nth iteration of that class in the html base.

<ul class="first_class">
    <li class="second_class ">
        <span class="third_class">
            <span class="fourth_class">100</span> 
        " temp_x"</span>
    </li>
    <li class="second_class ">
        <span class="third_class">
            <span class="fourth_class" title="200">200</span>
        " temp_y"</span>
        </li>
    <li class="second_class ">
        <span class="third_class">
            <span class="fourth_class">300</span>
        " temp_z"</span>
    </li>
</ul>

I was wondering if there is a way to specifically grab the 2nd and 3rd iteration so the output is 200 and 300

I'm only able to retrieve 100 which is from the first iteration using this:

self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[@class='fourth class']").text

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 13 '20 at 16:03

1

This can be done with the nth css selector. Also available with xpath

See this similar question for an example XPath query to get nth instance of an element

answered Apr 13 '20 at 16:03

Sri

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I tried the method you mentioned, but I can't seem to get it to work. Here are the to statements I tried, `self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//li[@class='fourth_class ']")[1].text` and even `self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//li[@class='second_class ']")[1].text`. Both result in `'WebElement' object is not subscriptable` – user9996043 Apr 13 '20 at 16:11
What you want to modify is the xpath, not the result from find_element_by_xpath. Try self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//li[@class='fourth_class '])[2]").text – Sri Apr 13 '20 at 16:13
`Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"(//li[@class='fourth_class '])[2]"}` Doesn't seem to be working – user9996043 Apr 13 '20 at 16:20
`self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//span[@class='fourth_class '])[2]").text` changing `li` to `span` seems to have done the trick. – user9996043 Apr 13 '20 at 16:23
Ah yes, it would need to be span as that is the element with the class "fourth_class" – Sri Apr 13 '20 at 16:24

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 13 '20 at 16:14

You can do this by getting the count of your locator using findElements. once you get count, you can traverse through loop using your xpath in the way.

List<WebElement> list=driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[@class='fourth class']");
for(int i=0;i<list.size();i++)
{
driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//span[@class='fourth_class'])[i]").text;
}

Selenium, get text from the nth same tag

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