Unable to get text of an element

Question

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");
   }      

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.