How to Select a Web Element by Text with Selenium Webdriver, Java

How to select a web element by text with Selenium WebDriver, Java

Css does not allow you do text based search. xpath is the only option there.

//div[contains(text(),'noreply@somedomain.com')]

How to find a Web Element by text in Selenium using Java?

You can try following code to identify this particular "bubble" class element:

WebElement elem = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[name()='circle'][contains(@style,'https://us.qlikcloud.com/node/i-0fc3fc8cc088b4fb7/sense/app/b5573a15-e951-45b5-81ed-92ef95c916bc/datamanager/datamanager#bubble-drop-shadow')]"));

Update #1:

driver.switchTo().frame("appFrame");     //need to switch to this frame before identifying elements present on frame with id "appFrame"
WebElement elem = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='table-information']/div[@title='BaseAloca']"));

How to select an element based on other element in selenium webdriver

Try to locate using following xpath -

//td[text()='My sample Test']/following-sibling::td/a[@title='Reject']

Explanation :-

Find the td tag which having text as 'My sample Test'
following-sibling used to navigate the sibling which have reject button

Getting WebElement by Text using XPath in Selenium test

It seems text is wrapped inside a label and not input. Try this

driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//label[text()[normalize-space() = 'Own Hotel']]"));

There is nice explanation about this xpath pattern here

Selenium and Java: How do I get all of the text after a WebElement

I have specified three approaches to extract the text from the result box. Please check all the approaches and use the required approach.

1. If you want to extract all the text, then you can find the element of the result box and then you can get the Text from that.

   WebElement result=driver.findElement(By.id("mid"));
   System.out.println(result.getText());
   

2. If you want to extract the Text based on the Section by section, then you can go with the below approach,

   List<WebElement> sectionList=driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@id='mid']/div"));
   int i=0;
   for(WebElement element:sectionList){
       System.out.println("Section "+i+":"+element.getText());
       i++;
   }
   

3. If you want to extract the text from specific section, then you can do with the below approach

       List<WebElement> sectionList=driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@id='mid']/div"));
   int i=0;
   //Inorder to get the Section 3 Content
   int section=2;
   for(WebElement element:sectionList){
       if(section==i){
           System.out.println("Section "+i+":"+element.getText());
       }
       i++;
   }
   

Edit: To address followup question

I would suggest to use some explicit wait after doing some action which resulting in some element rendering. In your code, after doing some modification, I am getting the result as expected.

1. In openTestSite method, I have just added the explicit wait to ensure the page load after loading the URL
2. In enter method, actually you are getting the autocomplete suggestion after entering the query value .So, we need to just select the value from the autocomplete.
3. In getText method, Search result is taking more time.So, we need to add some explicit wait using any one of the dynamically loading element locator.

Code:

openTestSite Method:

    public void openTestSite() {

    //driver.navigate().to(the URL for the website);
    driver.get("https://wonef.fr/try/");
    driver.manage().window().maximize();
    //Explicit wait is added after the Page load
    WebDriverWait wait=new WebDriverWait(driver,20);
    wait.until(ExpectedConditions.titleContains("WoNeF"));
}

enter Method:

public void enter(String word) {

    WebElement query_editbox =
            driver.findElement(By.id("query"));
    query_editbox.sendKeys(word);
    //AutoComplete is happening even after sending the Enter Key.
    // So, Value needs to be selected from the autocomplete
    WebDriverWait wait=new WebDriverWait(driver,20);
    wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//div[@class='autocomplete']/div")));
    List<WebElement> matchedList=driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@class='autocomplete']/div"));

    System.out.println(matchedList.size());
    for(WebElement element : matchedList){
        if(element.getText().equalsIgnoreCase(word)){
            element.click();
        }
    }
    //query_editbox.sendKeys(Keys.RETURN);
}

getText Method:

public void getText()  {
    WebDriverWait wait=new WebDriverWait(driver,20);
    wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//div[@id='mid']/div")));
    WebElement result=driver.findElement(By.id("mid"));
    System.out.println(result.getText());
}

I have tested with the above modified code and it is working fine.

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