How to get text with Selenium WebDriver in Python

Question

I'm trying to get text using Selenium WebDriver and here is my code. Please note that I don't want to use XPath, because in my case the ID gets changed on every relaunch of the web page.

My code:

text = driver.find_element_by_class_name("current-stage").getText("my text") 

HTML:

<span class="current-text" id="yui_3_7_0_4_1389185744113_384">my text</span> 

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

You want just .text.

You can then verify it after you've got it, don't attempt to pass in what you expect it should have.

Answer 2

Python

element.text 

Java

element.getText() 

C#

element.Text 

Ruby

element.text