How to fetch the text values from the dd tag using selenium

Question

I am automating one Project in my organization and came across one issue. I am very new to automation and selenium.

Issue that i am facing: not able to capture the text inside the dd tag in the html

The Highlighted text in the UI is what I want to capture and adjacent to it is the html code

Also Attaching the script I am writing And the Console Output

I am able to fetch the value from the dt tag but not from dd tag

Can Somebody help me with this?

Answer 1

This below code will surely help you.

Try this

public void click(WebDriver driver) throws InterruptedException {
            WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30);
        try {
            Thread.sleep(3000);
            WebElement table = driver.findElement(By.className("ng-star-inserted"));
            List<WebElement> allrows = table.findElements(By.tagName("tr"));
          //  List<WebElement> allcols = table.findElements(By.tagName("td"));
            Thread.sleep(2000);
            for(WebElement row: allrows) {
                List<WebElement> Cells = row.findElements(By.tagName("td"));
                for(WebElement Cell:Cells) {
                    if (Cell.getText().contains("COASTAL"))
                        Cell.click();
                }
            }
            Thread.sleep(2000);
            System.out.println("Welcome");
            Thread.sleep(10000);
            wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("call-caseDetail"))).click();
            System.out.println("first row is clicked");
            createDirector(wait, driver);
            updateDirector(wait, driver);
            deleteDirector(driver);
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Timeout " + e);
        } 

Answer 2

Not sure if you got your answer already.

If you didn't, then a few possibilities would be -

koganName = driver.findElement(By.xpath(("//div[@class='row p-3']/div/div/div/dl/dt[1]/following-sibling::dd[1]"))).getText();

koganName = driver.findElement(By.xpath(("//div[@class='row mb-1']//dd[1]")).getText();

koganName = driver.findElement(By.xpath(("//div[@class='row mb-1']//dt[text() = 'Name:']/following-sibling::dd[1]")).getText();

Although, in each case, the XPath is still long and you can optimize it most definitely.

Also, like @Dakshinamurthy Karra mentioned, it would be more helpful if you posted the code snippet instead of screen captures.

Good luck and happy testing!

Answer 3

Have you tried using CSS instead of XPath? Also, your XPath expression seems too long. You may need to shorten it. I would try something like //div[@class='row p-3']. CSS expression for the same is div[class='row p-3'].

Answer 4

This is a bit horizontal, but you might consider looking at using Protractor (wrapper of Selenium) to test this web app that looks like it must be Angular, before you get too far. The value(s) you seek to extract might be more easily available via a Protractor specific locator (like ngmodel).