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How to identify the text within the <a> using Selenium and Java

This is the code of the demo store I want to test:
<li class="level0 nav-2 parent">
<a href="http://demo-store.seleniumacademy.com/men.html"
class="level0 has-children">Men</a>
<ul class="level0">
<li class="level1 view-all">
<a class="level1" href="http://demo-
store.seleniumacademy.com/men.html">View All
Men</a>
</li>
<li class="level1 nav-2-1 first"><a></a></li>
<li class="level1 nav-2-2"><a href="http://demo-
store.seleniumacademy.com/men/shirts.html"
class="level1">text to get</a>
</li>
<li class="level1 nav-2-3"><a></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
I want to get text of those subcategories so I can later click on specific category by using text inside of a link element. My code is:
public Subcategory openSubcategory (String subcategoryName){
List<WebElement> subcategories = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("a.level1"));
for (WebElement element: subcategories) {
if (element.getText().equals(subcategoryName)){
element.click();
break;
}
}
return new Subcategory(driver);
}
But it won't go inside loop, probably because element.getText() is empty.

To click on the WebElement with text as Shirts first you have to Mouse Hover the element with text as Men inducing WebDriverWait for the visibilityOfElementLocated and you can use the following locator strategies:
public Subcategory openSubcategory (String subcategoryName){
WebElement menuMen = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//a[contains(#class,'has-children') and text()='Men']")));
new Actions(driver).moveToElement(menuMen).build().perform();
List<WebElement> subcategories = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//a[contains(#class,'has-children') and text()='Men']//following::ul[1]//li/a"));
for (WebElement element: subcategories) {
if (element.getText().equals(subcategoryName)){
element.click();
break;
}
}
return new Subcategory(driver);
}

element.getText() can be empty.
Try:
element.getAttribute("value");
// or
element.getAttribute("innerHTML");
Change your CSS to be:
"a[class*='level']";
// or
"a[]";
Debug the code and check if the element is not null

How to get the text attribute of a input element? - webdriver

<ul class="list-group opened-list d-none" xpath="1">
<li class="list-group-item col-12" xpath="1">My team</li>
<li class="list-group-item col-12" xpath="1">My name</li>
<li class="list-group-item col-12" xpath="1">My film</li>
<li class="list-group-item col-12" xpath="1">My football teammate</li>
</ul>
Dropdown list without select tag

To get all li elements use .list-group.opened-list .list-group-item css selector.
Code below wait visibility of li elements and then print text for each:
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
List<WebElement> options = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfAllElementsLocatedBy(By.cssSelector(".list-group.opened-list .list-group-item")));
options.forEach(element -> System.out.println(element.getText()));
If you want to select one of the element by text, check example here.

How get all li below div content selenium

How can i get all <a> value?
<div id="mCSB_1_container" class="mCSB_container" style="position: relative; top: -985px; left: 0px;" dir="ltr">
<li>
All countries
</li>
<li>
Germany
</li>
<div>
When i use
List<WebElement> allElements = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[#id='mCSB_1_container']/li/a"));
for (WebElement element: allElements) {
System.out.println(element.getText());
}
i get empty values.

Try one of below selectors:
By.xpath("//div[#id='mCSB_1_container']/li/a")
By.cssSelector("#mCSB_1_container li a")
By.cssSelector("div[id='mCSB_1_container'] li a")
By.xpath("//*[contains(#id, 'mCSB_1_container')]/li/a")
Or one of this findElements (I don't know if Java contains FindElements extension to IWebElement, but it work in other languages):
List<WebElement> allElements = driver
.findElement(By.id("mCSB_1_container"))
.findElements(By.cssSelector("li a"));
List<WebElement> allElements = driver
.findElement(By.id("mCSB_1_container"))
.findElements(By.tagName("a"));
List<WebElement> allElements = driver
.findElement(By.id("mCSB_1_container"))
.findElements(By.xpath("//li/a"));
Also, if no one works, try to find when breaks, using something like:
By.cssSelector("#mCSB_1_container") //Shoud find the id.
By.cssSelector("#mCSB_1_container li") //Shoud find the li inside the id.
If is unable to find one of they, there is some problem with frames or wait the element display

List<WebElement> allElements = driver.findElements(By.tagName("a"));
for(WebElement element: allElements)
{
System.out.println(element.getText());
}

Jsoup is a great html parser and it can be used with Selenium.
here is the Jsoup web page; https://jsoup.org/
and if you want to get all links from page you can use Jsoup like that;
Document doc = Jsoup.connect("https://jsoup.org/").get();
Elements links = doc.select("a[href]");
for (Element link : links) {
print(link);
}
this code snippet allows you to get all href values of all links. if you want to get all from web page use ;
Elements links = doc.select("a");
instead of
Elements links = doc.select("a[href]");

Selenium: Select child element with no parameters

due to the fact i'm using selenium for the first time i have a questin on selecting a child element without parameters.
I'm trying to get the child-div "element to be clicked" to perform a click.
Java:
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.className("parent"));
WebElement element2 = element.findElement(By.xpath("/div/div/div")); // should be wrong
element2.click();
Given HTML-Code:
<div class="parent">
<div>
<div>
<div>element to be clicked</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

You can use
element.findElement(By.xpath("//div[text()='element to be clicked']"));
With RegEx
element.findElement(By.xpath("//div[matches(text(),'RegExExpression']"));

While there's nothing to identify directly, we can do something like this..
List<WebElement> divs = driver.findElements(By.tagname("div")); //This will return all div elements
Then we can try something unique to that div..
for(int i = 0; i < divs.size(); i++) {
if(divs.get(i).getText().equals("element to be clicked")) {
divs.get(i).click();
break;
}
}

Selenium driver - select the desired li item in the list

In a list of 8 Elements I would select the one that contains the search text in children div. I need this because the elements of the list changes order every time. Here I would like to select the one that contains the text "TITLE TO LISTEN". How do I scroll through the list and select the wish li?
Thanks in advance
Here one li:
...
<li id="3636863298979137009" class="clearfix" data-size="1" data-fixed="1" data-side="r">
<div class="userContentWrapper">
<div class="jki">
<span class="userContent">
TITLE TO LISTEN
</div>
<div class="TimelineUFI uiContainer">
<form id="u_0_b0" class="able_item collapsed_s autoexpand_mode" onsubmit="return window.Event && E" action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" method="post" >
<input type="hidden" value="1" name="data_only_response" autocomplete="off">
<div class="TimelineFeedbackHeader">
<a class="ction_link" role="button" title="Journal" data-ft="{"tn":"J","type":25}" rel="dialog" href="/ajax/" tabindex="0" rip-style-bordercolor-backup="" style="" rip-style-borderstyle-backup="" >LISTEN</a>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</li>
</ol>
</div>
...
I tried this code, but it don't work because the elements ids change each time.
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//li[8]/div[2]/div/div[2]/form/div/div/span[2]/a")).click();
For example:
If text contain "TEXT TO LISTEN": li[3]/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div/div/span
Link "listen" i want to click : li[3]/div[2]/div/div[2]/form/div/div/span[2]/a
here is number 3, but the order may change. I would first like to get that number and then click on the right link

Use this
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//li[contains(text(), 'Your text goes here')]"))
EDIT: just realised it's very old ques and you might have got ans by now, so for others who are looking for answer to this question.

You could get list of all li elements, and then search for specified text
for(int i=0; i< listOfLiElements.Count, i++){
if(listOfLiElements[i].FindElement(By.ClassName("userContent")).Text == "TITLE TO LISTEN")
{
correctElement = listOfLiElements[i].FindElement(By.TagName("a"));
i =listOfLiElements.Count;
}
}

Well, then just iterate through for each and ask if the current element has the right text inside it.
List<Element> listOfLiTags = driver.findElement(By.Id("yourUlId")).findElements(By.TagName("li"));
for(Element li : listOfLiTags) {
String text = li.getElement(By.ClassName("userContent").getText();
if(text.equals("TITLE TO LISTEN") {
//do whatever you want and don't forget break
break;
}
}
Note that this is much more easier with CssSelector API.
List<Element> listOfSpans = driver.findElements(
By.CssSelector("ul[id=yourId] li span[class=userContent]");
Now just iterate and ask for the right text:)

You can try this :
public void ClickLink()
{
WebElement ol =driver.findElement(By.id("ol"));
List<WebElement> lis=ol.findElements(By.tagName("li"));
ArrayList<String> listFromGUI=new ArrayList<>();
for(int i=0;i<lis.size();i++)
{
WebElement li=ol.findElement(By.xpath("//ol[#id='ol']/li["+(i+1)+"]/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div/div/span"));
if(li.getText().trim().equals("TEXT TO LISTEN"))
{
WebElement link=ol.findElement(By.xpath("//ol[#id='ol']/li["+(i+1)+"]/div[2]/div/div[2]/form/div/div/span[2]/a"));
if(link.getText().trim().equals("LISTEN"))
{
link.click();
break;
}
}
}
}