On Selenium WebDriver how to get Text from Span Tag

Question

On Selenium Webdriver, how I can retrieve text from a span tag & print?

I need to extract the text UPS Overnight - Free

HTML code are as follow:

div id="customSelect_3" class="select_wrapper">
<div class="select_display hovered">
<span class="selectLabel clear">UPS Overnight - Free</span>

Using following code:

String kk = wd.findElement(By.xpath(//*[@id='customSelect_3']/div[1]/span)).getText();
System.out.println(kk);

But above code is returning/printing text: 1.

Answer 1

Maybe the span element is hidden. If that's the case then use the innerHtml property:

By.css:

String kk = wd.findElement(By.cssSelector("#customSelect_3 span.selectLabel"))
              .getAttribute("innerHTML");

By.xpath:

String kk = wd.findElement(By.xpath(
                   "//*[@id='customSelect_3']/.//span[contains(@class,'selectLabel')]"))
              .getAttribute("innerHTML");

"/.//" means "look under the selected element".

Answer 2

I agree css is better. If you did want to do it via Xpath you could try:

    String kk = wd.findElement(By.xpath(.//*div[@id='customSelect_3']/div/span[@class='selectLabel clear'].getText()))