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How do I get the TEXT of a hyperlink with selenium and python?

This is the html in question:

<a ng-href="/example/example2/" href="/example/example2/">NEEDED TEXT</a>

I already have the element of the 'a' tag and I am able to successfuly get the link by doing element.get_attribute("href").

But when I try to do element.text i am not able to get "NEEDED TEXT". What is the reason for this?

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  • What is exactly happening when you invoke element.text?
    – Alexey R.
    Dec 26, 2018 at 10:12
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    It just returns an empty string ' ' when i do element.text . I ended up getting it to work with both element.get_attribute('innerHTML') and element.get_attribute('text')
    – E. Jin
    Jan 3, 2019 at 7:01

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Are you sure that there are no other elements within the <a> tag?
element.text should return the text.
You can also try element.get_attribute('innerHTML') and check whether it works.

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Ideally the element.text should work. If it doesn't, then you can try any of element.get_attribute('innerHTML') or element.get_attribute('text'). Note that the parameters to get_attribute is case sensitive.

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