How to retrieve text written on the button element in Selenium?

Question

<button class="btn">Enable</button>

This is my button element. I want to retrieve "Enable" back to my program.

if(driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div/table/tbody/tr[16]/td[4]/div/button")).getText.matches("Enable"))


{
    System.out.println("Test Pass");
    //return true;
}
else
{System.out.println("Test Failed");
    //return false;
} 

Answer 1

<button name="btnK" id="gbqfba" aria-label="Google Search" class="gbqfba"><span id="gbqfsa">Google Search</span></button>

Button tag has multiple attributes 'name', 'id', 'class' and 'aria-label' and has values for each attribute. To get the attribute value using selenium WebDriver, we can use element.getAttribute(attributeName)

In your case:

WebElement button = driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div/table/tbody/tr[16]/td[4]/div/button");

    if(button.getAttribute("name").matches("Enable"))
    {
        System.out.println("Test Pass");
        //return true;
    }
    else{
       System.out.println("Test Failed");
        //return false;
    } 

Answer 2

There is a mistake. The function is .getText(). The brackets are missing in my code.

Answer 3

We can simply get the text from the button.

    WebElement buttonText = driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div/table/tbody/tr[16]/td[4]/div/button"));

    if(buttonText.getText().equals("Enable")) {
        System.out.println("Test Pass");
        //return true;
    } else{
        System.out.println("Test Failed");
        //return false;
    }

Or

WebElement buttonText = driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div/table/tbody/tr[16]/td[4]/div/button"));
Assert.assertEquals("Buton Nmae", buttonText.getText());