Unable to extract the paragraph text within an accordion using Selenium Java

Question

I used xpath for getting the paragraph text, it works fine for first paragraph but second and third paragraph it is not working fine. it shows empty in console output.

Following string are the ones which i have faced the issue - String secondAns , String thirdAns

[Note : I did not face any issue as element not found for second and third paragraph ]

driver.get("https://demoqa.com/widgets");
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[text()='Accordian']")).click(); 
//clicking the left menu 
//First Paragraph
String firstques = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='section1Heading']")).getText();
System.out.println("First Question : " + firstques); 
String firstAns = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='section1Content']//p[1]")).getText(); 
System.out.println("First Answer : " + firstAns); 
    
//Second Paragraph
String secondques = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='section2Heading']")).getText();
System.out.println("Second Question : " + secondques); 
String secondAns = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='section2Content']//p[1]")).getText(); 
System.out.println("Second Answer : " + secondAns); 
    
//Third Paragraph
String thirdques = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='section3Heading']")).getText();
System.out.println("Third Question : " + thirdques); 
String thirdAns = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='section3Content']//p[1]")).getText(); 
System.out.println("Third Answer : " + thirdAns

Answer 1

The elements are within an accordion. Within the accordion though the first question is visible by default, the second and the third question is collapsed by default.

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So to extract the text you have to click() and open the accordion and you can use the following Locator Strategies:

• Code Block:

  driver.get("https://demoqa.com/widgets");
  ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("scroll(0, 100)");
  new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//div[@id='section2Heading']"))).click();
  System.out.println(new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//div[@id='section2Heading']//following::div[1]/div[@id='section2Content']"))).getText());
  

• Console Output:

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Answer 2

As far as I see, second and third paragraphs are hidden (not expanded), so getText() reruns an empty string for present, but not visible element.

You have to expand(make visible) the elements before getting text.

Try to click on corresponding accordeon headers.