How to write XPath under tag: strong<> <br> after every <strong>

Question

I am trying to find xpath of text 262567 of given below HTML code :

<div class="lessthanhalf" >
  <h4> Listing</h4>
  <strong style="background: rgb(204, 136, 136); border: 2px solid red;">Load #:</strong>
    262567
  <br>
<strong style="background: rgb(204, 136, 136); border: 2px solid red;">Date Listed:</strong>
 12/14/2017
<br>

Tried with //div[@class='lessthanhalf']/h4/following-sibling::strong/text()[3] but not getting success.

Can someone please help me on that.

Answer 1

You can use below xpath to get the text what you want to get

//div[@class='lessthanhalf']/strong[contains(text(),'Load')]‌​/following::text()[1‌​] 

But selenium doesn't allow you to locate an element using text node. You can use JavascriptExecutor to evaluate your xpath to get your desired text

JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;  
Object load= js.executeScript("var value = document.evaluate(\"//div[@class='lessthanhalf']/strong[cont‌​ains(text(),'Load')]‌​/following::text()[1‌​]\",document, null, XPathResult.STRING_TYPE, null ); return value.stringValue;"); 
System.out.println("Load Number : "+ load.toString());

Answer 2

//div[@class='lessthanhalf']/strong[1]/following::text()[1]

"This worked for me"