How to get text from span class in selenium

Question

<th>     
    <span class="firstLanguage">Zeit</span>
</th>
<th>
    <span class="firstLanguage">Nach</span>
</th>
<th>
    <span class="firstLanguage"> </span>
</th>
<th>
    <span class="firstLanguage">Über</span>
</th>
<th>
    <span class="firstLanguage">Gleis</span>
</th>

How can I extract the text from span tags in selenium. Is it via classname, but all four class = "firstLanguage"

Answer 1

You can try below snippet.

 int count = selenium.getXpathCount("//span[@class='firstLanguage']").intValue();
 for(int i =1 ; i <= count ; i ++){
         System.out.println(selenium.getText("//span["+i+"]"));
 }

This will return you all the span elements defined by the class firstLanguage and you can iterate the list to take text out of them.

Answer 2

driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/span")).getText();

will display "Zeit"

driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/span[2]")).getText();
will display "Nach"

likewise

driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/span[5]")).getText();
will display "Gleis"