java - Extract text which contains
tag with Selenium Webdriver

I'm trying to extract text from following HTML code :

<div> "blabla" <br> "blublu" <br> "blibli" </div> 

I'm using getAttribute method because the text can be hidden (so getText() can possibly return null) :

String text = driver.findElement(By.tagName("div")).getAttribute("textContent"); System.out.println(text); 

the expected result is

blabla\nblublu\nblibli 

however I get

blablablublublibli 

2 Answers

You can use getText() method on the WebElement

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div")).getText() 

Output would be something like:-

"blabla" "blublu" "blibli" 

Problem resolved by using

String text = driver.findElement(By.tagName("div")).getAttribute("innerText"); 

and not

String text = driver.findElement(By.tagName("div")).getAttribute("textContent");