How to Get Inner Text in Selenium Java

Selenium is an open-source web-based automation tool that is implemented using a web driver. We will be using geckodriver because Selenium 3 enables geckodriver as the default WebDriver implementation for Firefox.

Pre-requisites:

1. geckodriver.exe
2. maven dependency selenium

 <dependency>
    <groupid>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupid>
	<artifactid>selenium-java</artifactid>  
	<version>4.1.1</version> 
 </dependency>

Steps:

Getting inner text takes 4 simple steps:

1. Set webdriver.gecko.driver and its' path as a system property.
2. Set the firefox diver and browse to the website.
3. Get the HTML Div containing text as Web-element using webdriver.findElement() function and css selector.
4. Find a text element and print its text.

Let’s see all the above steps in the code. We will use Webelment.getText() function to get the inner text of the element.

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class GetInnerText {
    public static String GECKODRIVER_PATH ="F:\\WORK\\SeleniumShortTasks\\InnerText\\src\\main\\resources\\geckodriver.exe";
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //set firefox webdriver
        System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", GECKODRIVER_PATH);
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

        //get the firefox browser & Browse the Website for text
        String siteLink = "https://www.google.com.pk/search?q=selenium&sxsrf=ALiCzsamJQcQ2jjFb80dwEnsrjbTZrD0jQ%3A1659399526569&ei=Zm3oYoOkIsKC9u8PoZmloAM&ved=0ahUKEwiD78j68Kb5AhVCgf0HHaFMCTQQ4dUDCA4&uact=5&oq=selenium&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBAgjECcyBAgjECcyBAgjECcyCggAELEDEIMBEEMyBAgAEEMyBAgAEEMyCggAELEDEIMBEEMyCwgAEIAEELEDEIMBMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQ6BwgAEEcQsAM6BwgAELADEEM6CggAEOQCELADGAE6FQguEMcBENEDENQCEMgDELADEEMYAjoMCC4QyAMQsAMQQxgCOhAIABCABBCHAhCxAxCDARAUOgcIIxDqAhAnOgoILhDHARDRAxBDOggIABCxAxCDAToECC4QQzoRCC4QgAQQsQMQgwEQxwEQ0QM6BwguELEDEEM6BwgAELEDEEM6CgguELEDEIMBEENKBAhBGABKBAhGGAFQ3QZYnCFgtCNoAnABeASAAbICiAHPG5IBBjItMTEuMpgBAKABAbABCsgBE8ABAdoBBggBEAEYCdoBBggCEAEYCA&sclient=gws-wiz";
        driver.get(siteLink);

        //Get Heading Div
        WebElement headingDiv = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.kno-rdesc"));
        //Get inner Element for our text
        WebElement span = headingDiv.findElement(By.tagName("span"));
        System.out.println("Heading inner Text = "+span.getText());
    }
}

Output:

All resources used in this tutorial are attached:

• source code
• geckdriver.exe

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