How to find element by atrribute using selenium?

Question

I want to select text from the following html line:

<h3 data-reacid ='64'> text to select <h3>

I tried to use xpath. But for some reason, selenium can not find this element by xpath. I want to select the text by the 'data-reactid' attribute. I am not sure how to do this. I am using selenium with python.

Answer 1

Assuming 64 is a stable value and does not change for this particular element and the attribute name is data-reactid (and not the data-reacid - looks like a typo):

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//h3[@data-reactid = '64']").text

Equivalent CSS selector based solution:

driver.find_element_by_css_selector("h3[data-reactid=64]").text

Of course, you need to account for the possible timing issues and other situations like an element being inside an iframe. This is specific to your particular situation.