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How to choose an element from divs having the same classnames (Selenium)

I am new to Selenium which is probably why I am stuck.
Here is the screenshot showing inspect where two divs are almost identical but they both have another div inside containing different text values: Image.
Could I somehow choose the div I want by checking if getText() is equal to ...?
I found the following way but as far as I know, I would never know the order of the stream:
new ArrayList<>(chromeDriver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[#class='sign-up-row']"))).get(1).click();
Thank you guys.

Using Xpath like below:
example for //div[#class='sign-up-row'] this node
use text():
//div[#class='sign-up-row' and .//span[text()='Remember me.')]]
Or use with contains:
//span[contains(text(), 'Remember')]/ancestor::div[#class='sign-up-row']
Use the dot . can find inner element:
//div[#class='sign-up-row' and contains(., 'Remember')]

You can create an xpath using the text present in the tag within the div tag. This would return the specific element you are interested in.
Example for the xpath:
//div/div[text()='textforcomparison']

You can follow below approach.
List<WebElement> lst = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[#class='sign-up-row']"));
for (int i = 0; i < lst.size(); i++) {
if(lst.get(i).getText().equals("Text to Be Compared")) {
lst.get(i).click();
//If you want to break the foe loop after the match
break;
}
}

How to get the value of label text in selenium webdriver

I'm trying to get the value of a permission key in Selenium web-driver(java), but I couldn't able to identify the element. Can anyone please help me to identify the element and get the value "4BF12-50763-166E0".
There are 9 span class with same name and it's quite hard to identify the same.
The web page part look like as below and i want to take each of the below elements value like version, status etc. All are present in the span class as shown in the below pic.
Any suggestions will be of great help.
Version 1.2
Status Enabled
Days left 373
Permission KEY 4BF12-50763-166E0
Permission Serial Number 99678905096711
Subscription End Date 2020-08-31
The sample of the HTML is attached.
I have tried this, but it is selecting "Permission KEY" only.
WebElement details = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//b[text()='Permission KEY']"));
String title = details.getAttribute("title");
String label = details.getText();
System.out.println("Title is " +title);
System.out.println("Label is" +label);

You can find your desired text in this case "Permission Key" go the ancestor element and go to the second span that contains the value.
XPath:
String xpath = "//b[text()='Permission Key']/ancestor::dd/span[2]";
WebElement spanElement = driver.findElement(By.xpath(xpath));
spanElement.getText(); // Will give you '4BF12-50763-166E0'
IMPORTANT NOTE: You can change the 'Permission Key' to any other value like for example 'Version' and IF they follow the same pattern, it will work for all, example:
String xpath = "//b[text()='Version']/ancestor::dd/span[2]";
WebElement spanElement = driver.findElement(By.xpath(xpath));
spanElement.getText(); // Will give you '1.2'

You can use preceding-sibling strategy in your xpath, try this bellow :
WebElement key = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[#class='pull-right property-value' and ./preceding-sibling::span/b[contains(text(),'Permission KEY')]]"));
System.out.println("Permission KEY : " +key.getText());
Make sure this is the correct class name : #class='pull-right property-value', because i see from your image.

Use Selenium Java to get string text from HTML

I want to get Selenium with Chromedriver to recognize and import a line of html text into a Webelement variable.
Given this HTML:
<li id="password_rules">
<strong>Password Rules</strong>
<p>The database password rules conform with...:</p>
<ul>
<li>The password can not be the same as the user id.</li>
<li>Password length must be between 8 and 25 characters.</li>
</ul>
</li>
I want to grab the text in the last list element ("Password length must be between 8 and 25 characters.").
This is the java code I'm attempting to use:
WebElement passwordCriteria = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id = 'password_rules']//*[contains(text(), 'Password length must be between ')]"));
String lineText = passwordCriteria.getText();
When that Java executes, it returns an error saying the element cannot be found:
Exception in thread "main"
org.openqa.selenium.InvalidSelectorException: invalid selector: Unable
to locate an element with the xpath expression //[contains((text(),
'Password length must be between ')] because of the following error:
SyntaxError: Failed to execute 'evaluate' on 'Document': The string
'//[contains((text(), 'Password length must be between ')]' is not a
valid XPath expression.
Any insight is much appreciated.

If you are grabbing a WebElement by it's id, then you don't need your extra specific xPath. id is supposed to be unique by convention. If you have other html elements with the same id, consider changing them to a class.
You should be able to grab the element like this:
WebElement passwordCriteria = driver.findElement(By.id("password_rules"));
If you're committed to finding the element by the id containing some text then the way you should do it is as follows:
WebElement passwordCriteria = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains((text(),'Password length must be between')]"));
Also, sometimes Selenium will complain if elements are not visible on the page when you try and reference them. Sometimes you need to wait, other times you need to perform some other action to make the text visible before referencing it, like hovering the mouse over a dropdown, etc.
For example
Suppose the html you pasted here is an error message. This error message does not start out as being 'visible', but instead it is shown after the user types their password in incorrectly. In such an instance, Selenium won't let you reference the text from an element inside this div, since it's not currently view-able. Instead, what you would have to do is use Selenium to input the incorrect password in the fields, wait for the error message to be displayed, and then finally reference the WebElement, only after it is able to be seen.
EDIT:
I misread OP's intention. The element that OP is trying to reference is NOT the element with the id, but rather a child of that element. Instead of rewriting my answer, I will point out that #Grasshopper answer has both css and xPath solutions.

You can try these locators if the concerned li is always the last child.
Css - "li[id='password_rules'] > ul > li:last-child"
xpath - "//li[#id='password_rules']/ul/li[last()]"

As per your question as the desired text is within Password Rules you have to induce WebDriverWait with ExpectedConditions as textToBePresentInElementLocated and then retrieve the text as follows :
new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.textToBePresentInElementLocated(By.xpath("//li[#id='password_rules']//ul//li"), "Password length"));
String lineText = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//li[#id='password_rules']//ul//li[contains(.,'Password length')]")).getAttribute("innerHTML");

Thank you for the help everyone. I finally got it using the following:
new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.textToBePresentInElementLocated(By.xpath("//li[#id = 'password_rules']"), "Password length must be between "));

WebElement passwordCriteria = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//li[#id = 'password_rules']/ul/li[2]);
String lineText = passwordCriteria.getText();
Your original example had // which should only be used at the beginning of an xpath.

How can I get text from element with Selenium webdriver and Java?

My code:
WebDriver driver = new SafariDriver();
driver.get("http://bet.hkjc.com/football/default.aspx");
WebElement matchs = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("span.Head to Head"));
System.out.println(matchs);
driver.quit();
How can I crawl Manchester Utd and Celta Vigo?

WebElement matchs = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[#title='Head to Head']"));
System.out.println(matchs.getText());

Use firebug and firepath addons in firefox and inspect that element and get the xpath and put it here inside double quotes in this code :
System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.xpath("")).getText());
If you don't know how to use firebug and firepath refer this link

You can locate the element either by css selector or xpath selector
By using xpath
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[#title='Head to Head']"));
By using css Selector
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("span > a[title='Head to Head']"));
OR Try somethings like this if not getting the match
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("td.cteams.ttgR2>span>a[title='Head to Head']"));
Note : in your code you are trying like span.Head to Head in CSS selector . dot represents the class and according to your path you are locating span tag which have class name "Head to Head" which doesn't exist in your dom as this is the title of anchor tag.
Went through the Firebug and Firepath plugins of Firefox initially to get the Xpath or css path
Explore some blogs to get clear understanding, you will be able to create by yourself
Refer This link for the same

I assume all the above answers doesn't work for you and am providing another answer.
I can see both the texts are under "a" tag. So the idea is to navigate to the element and use getText() - which returns the visible text.
String word = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span/a")).getText();
System.out.println(word);
Hope this works for you.

In all of my tests I'm using the getAttribute like this to get text and it is working fine for me on all drivers :
assertEquals(strCity, txtCity.getAttribute("value"));

NoSuchElementException when using By.Xpath

Edit :
The element was inside an iframe, this is how it finally worked:
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(_driver, 60);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.frameToBeAvailableAndSwitchToIt(By
.xpath("//*[#class='IFrameID']")));
WebElement element_t = _driver.findElement(
By.xpath("//*[#myattribute='mytest']"));
Edit :
My problem seems to be the structure of the page. i tried different things, and i only was able to get the body by id, ever other element i tried to get by id or any other attribute couldnt be found...
I am trying to get an element by using the By.xpath method, the xpath itself works just fine when used in firebug/firepath, but when used in the java application i am getting an Exception:
org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":".//*[#myattribute='mytest']"}
The attribute i am trying to access is not a standard html one, but generated from a framework so the field looks like this :
<input id="F_19" class="FIELDInputEdit" type="text" style=" width:100%;" maxlength="40" myattribute="mytest" name="CC">
The javacode itself looks like this :
WebElement element_t = _driver.findElement(
By.xpath(".//*[#myattribute='mytest']"));
Since the only known attribute is this one, i have no ohter way to access the input field.
I am using Firefox 17.0.11

good practice (imho) before using xpath in webdriver test it using selenium ide (http://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/)
Error might be because of «.» before «//». Try to remove it.
Read this: http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_syntax.asp
.//*[#myattribute='mytest']
«.» = Selects the current node
«//» = Selects nodes in the document from the current node that match the selection no matter where they are
«*» = Matches any element node
«[#myattribute='mytest']» ( = [#myattribute = \"mytest\"]) = Node, that contains attribute "myattribute", which value is "mytest"
Now, _driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#myattribute='mytest']")) = search whole page for first node with attribute «myattribute» with value «mytest»
_driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[#myattribute='mytest']"))
= search whole page for first input with «myattribute» = «mytest»
_driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[#myattribute='mytest']")).then(By.path("./*[#comeAtr]")) = in input with «myattribute» = «mytest» find any node with atribute = «

Have you tried to use CSS selectors instead?
By.cssSelector("input[myattribute=\"mytest\"]")

The element was inside an iframe, this is how it finally worked:
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(_driver, 60);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.frameToBeAvailableAndSwitchToIt(By
.xpath("//*[#class='IFrameID']")));
WebElement element_t = _driver.findElement(
By.xpath("//*[#myattribute='mytest']"));