How do I get the text of a hyperlink (not the actual link) using selenium and python

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.