Unfortunately I did not find any existing solution for my problem on stackoverflow. So, can someone help.

I want to get the text of an html-element. I tried this:

var element = driver.findElement(webdriver.By.className("credits")).getText();

console.log(element);

Unfortunately this did not work so far.

Unfortunately I did not find any existing solution for my problem on stackoverflow. So, can someone help.

I want to get the text of an html-element. I tried this:

var element = driver.findElement(webdriver.By.className("credits")).getText();

console.log(element);

Unfortunately this did not work so far.

• javascript
• node.js
• selenium

• 1 Can yo post the html that you are trying to get the text from? – smit9234 Commented Aug 15, 2017 at 17:59
• Set var element = driver.findElement(webdriver.By.className("credits")).innerHTML – Luke Danger Kozorosky Commented Aug 15, 2017 at 17:59
• just use await if you are an async function. – Makan dianka Commented Jun 20, 2024 at 10:49

3 Answers 3

Someone posted an answer and deleted it seconds after it...thank you anyway:

For you information, this works fine for me:

var textPromise = driver.findElement(webdriver.By.className("credits")).getText();
textPromise.then((text) => {
  console.log(text);
});

Try this instead if you are inside an async function:

var element = await driver.findElement(webdriver.By.className("credits")).getText();

console.log(element);

You have to be inside of async function and use await

let elementName = await this.driver.findElement(By.css(`.factoryListElementName`)).getText()

console.log(elementName)