Find Element using Selenium Webdriver

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I am trying to find an element in the website that i am trying to automate but am unable to figure out how to fetch a particular element. I have provided the html below. Please provide some inputs. Thanks.

< div id="Troy_combine" class="sign_in_flow sign_in_flow_overlay troy_overlay epc_modal big_dialog modal_display" > < h3 class="migration"> Welcome back.< /h3>< h3 class="normal">Welcome to Disneyland< / h3>< p class="migration">It looks like you have a account that use the same address and password. Let’s combine them into a single account to make it easier to access both services.< /p>

Note: There are multiple "migration" classes. How will it know which one to pick up??

I am trying to fetch the text shown in Italics. Help required

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djangofan · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-02 17:16:36Z

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I would use a cssSelector like so:

String itext = driver
    .findElement( By.cssSelector("div#Troy_combine p.migration")).getText();

edited Aug 2, 2013 at 17:16

answered Aug 2, 2013 at 17:02

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vaibhav misra Over a year ago

There are multiple classes with name as "migration". I want to get text of the one having 'p' tag. I am getting element not found exception with above solution

vaibhav misra Over a year ago

Is the space there between 'combine' and 'p'? Now i am not getting any exception but the string is returned as blank

Nathan Merrill Over a year ago

His code is correct. What happens if you run this:

new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.textToBePresentInElement(By.cssSelector("div#Troy_combine p.migration"), "It looks like you have a account that use the same address and password. Let’s combine them into a single account to make it easier to access both services."))

vaibhav misra Over a year ago

I get a timeoutexception when i follow your advice...one thing i want to point out....the full html has multiple 'div' tags. i have copied only the one that I am interested in...Can that be the issue? So I am dealing with multiple 'div' and multiple classes with same name.

vaibhav misra Over a year ago

the CSS path of the element is shown as below when using Firebug: html body.login div.ui-dialog div#Troy_combine.sign_in_flow p.migration

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Nathan Merrill · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-02 16:53:05Z

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Selecting via classes and IDs are always the easiest and most reliable. Do a By.className("migration").

answered Aug 2, 2013 at 16:53

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Franklin · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-02 17:05:21Z

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findElement(By.cssSelector("div.migration")).getText();

I think you could select it by ID as well.

answered Aug 2, 2013 at 17:05

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