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I have selenium Test case to validate contents of 2 web pages. The issue, I am facing is I'm not able to get anything from element.getText().

I'm using below code.

driver1.get("https://some url");
String b = driver1.findElement(By.className("supArticleContent")).getText();
WebDriver driver2 = new ChromeDriver();  
driver2.get("https://some other url");
String a = driver2.findElement(By.className("supArticleContent")).getText();
System.out.println("text content is"+a);

if (a.equals(b)) {
     System.out.println("TC PASSED");          
 }
 else{
     System.out.println("TC FAILED");
   }      
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    What is the HTML for the supArticleContent? Jul 31, 2018 at 9:57
  • you should try some other locator instead of class name there are less chances for this to be unique on webpage
    – NarendraR
    Jul 31, 2018 at 10:45
  • please fix your code formatting..
    – Alexey R.
    Jul 31, 2018 at 12:12
  • It's also possible that you are confusing .getText() with .getAttribute("value") but I can't tell because of a lot of missing information. Aug 1, 2018 at 13:22
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    @NarendraR, your comment reads like a good beginning to a good answer.
    – Malachi
    Aug 9, 2018 at 18:19

2 Answers 2

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  1. if html code is <div value="your expected text">

    try: element.getAttribute("value")

  2. if html code is <div>your expected text<div>

    try element.gettext(); or element.getAttribute("innerHTML");

    I met one fail case by gettext() but it worked by getAttribute("innerHTML")

div is just a tag name used for example, it can be any tag name as you may already know.

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This can have following reasons:

  • Either the element cann't be located with the following locators you have given
  • In the second line you have mentioned driver2 for accessing the second website but you have mentioned driver1.findElement(By.className("supArticleContent")).getText();.

Try Syso after getting the text and storing in a variable. Then you will be able to debug this problem.

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  • you may want to update your answer, the OP has edited their question to make use of driver2
    – Malachi
    Aug 9, 2018 at 18:30

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