How to get the text of element using Selenium Java

Question

I want to get the text "We didn't recognize that email and/or password." using Selenium and Java

<div class="styles_errorDisplayInnerContainer_3R2ni-zSvPIKWfKXiviJhH">
  <span class="styles_questionMarkContainer_10mxHNOMojCyG6bxLH9qo9">
      <svg class="uni-icon uni-icon--large" viewBox="0 0 32 32" aria-labelledby="title1" role="img" fill-rule="evenodd">
        <title id="title1">IconHelp</title>
        <path fill="inherit" ></path>
      </svg>
   </span>
  <p class="uni-text" data-qa-id="error-display">We didn't recognize that email and/or password.<a class="uni-link uni-link--default uni-margin--quarter--left">Need help?</a></p>
</div>

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 30 '22 at 05:53

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Try the following xpaths to trace the element -

//p[contains(text(),'We didn't recognize that email and/or password')]

Or

//p[@class='uni-text'][@data-qa-id='error-display']

Also, please share the HTML markup in properly formatted manner.

answered Aug 30 '22 at 05:53

indayush

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 30 '22 at 08:58

To extract the text We didn't recognize that email and/or password. from the <p> element you can use either of the following locator strategies:

Using cssSelector:

System.out.println(wd.findElement(By.cssSelector("p.uni-text[data-qa-id='error-display']")).getText());

Using xpath:

System.out.println(wd.findElement(By.xpath("//p[@class='uni-text' and @data-qa-id='error-display']")).getText());

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 30 '22 at 12:50

Try as follows:

First assign the paragraph element to a WebElement object. Here using PageFactory we can assign this element to a WebElement called errorText as follows:

@FindBy(xpath = "//p[@class="uni-text" and @data-qa-id="error-display"]") WebElement errorTextLabel;

Then use the getAttribute method to get the text in the 'error-display' attribute and assign it to a String variable.

String errorText = errorTextLabel.getAttribute("error-display");

How to get the text of element using Selenium Java

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