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I want to get the text (SampleList23.csv) that is present between 2 spans.

HTML:

<div class="ng-scope" ng-switch-when="false">
    <div class="engage-tag ng-binding">
        <span class="icon-doc-generic-b"/>
        SampleList23.csv                 
        <span class="icon-close close" ng-click="unsetImportFile()"/>
    </div>
</div>

Code I have tried:

   1.  expect(element(by.xpath(".//*[@class='engage-tag ng binding']/*")).getAttribute("value")).toContain("SampleList23.csv");
   2.  expect(element(by.xpath("//*[@class='engage-tag ng-binding']/child::node()", 'SampleList23.csv); 
   3.  expect(element(by.xpath("//*[@class='engage-tag ng-binding']/*", 'SampleList23.csv);

All above failed to get text.

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  • It would be good to know the output in case of all the three options that you've tried. – demouser123 Oct 9 '17 at 15:44
  • It looks like you should be able to just get the text() in the div . . . – ernie Oct 9 '17 at 17:17
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Since your span elements don't have a text, you can basically "ignore" them. In other words, get the parent div element and get the text via getText():

expect($(".engage-tag").getText()).toEqual("SampleList23.csv");
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  • Will getText() fetch you the text here? Doesn't it require resolving a promise? As per link it does. – demouser123 Oct 10 '17 at 4:31
  • @demouser123 in Protractor, expect() is internally patched to implicitly resolve promises before executing the assertions. This is quite handy. Thanks. – alecxe♦ Oct 10 '17 at 13:01

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