How can I get the text node of an element in robot framework with selenium2library?

Question

<span id="spanHome" class="where-are-we" style="background-color: transparent;"> Home </span>

I want to get "Home" and returned. Which keyword should I use?

I tried:

${value}= Get Value //span[@id='spanHome']

But I always get None.

Answer 1

To get the text within a dom element, you need to use getText(). You are specifying getValue() which is synonymous with getAttribute("value").

Since your <span> element reveals text by it's innerHTML, instead of a value attribute, use getText()