I am trying to match the text and select the check box. I am trying to get the text or the innerHTML from the input tag of type checkbox.

I tried getText(); it returns blank, innerHTML, innerText returns null.

I am able to fetch the value, and all the other associated attributes of the tag, but not the text. I tried getting the text by executing the JavaScript code through Selenium, but that is also returning null or blank. How can I fix this?

The text is visible - not hidden.

I am trying to match the text and select the check box. I am trying to get the text or the innerHTML from the input tag of type checkbox.

I tried getText(); it returns blank, innerHTML, innerText returns null.

I am able to fetch the value, and all the other associated attributes of the tag, but not the text. I tried getting the text by executing the JavaScript code through Selenium, but that is also returning null or blank. How can I fix this?

The text is visible - not hidden.

• javascript
• selenium
• gettext

• Try to give some codes that you have written – Anand Commented Dec 5, 2012 at 10:55
• Could you provide the HTML code of the element. – GirishB Commented Dec 6, 2012 at 18:11
• With Java I was having this issue with a BR tag returning empty. Instead of .getText() I used .getAttribute("innerHTML") which will then return what I was looking for, including any HTML that is invisible or text that is hidden. – jsherk Commented Jun 9, 2014 at 16:16
• Possible duplicate: How to gettext() of an element in Selenium Webdriver – Peter Mortensen Commented Nov 22, 2020 at 7:35

2 Answers 2

You could try using getAttribute("textContent") or getAttribute("value")

public Collection<String> getTextValuesFromSearch(WebElement searchContext) {

    final Collection<String> collectedText = new ArrayList<>();
    final Collection<WebElement> webElementsWithText = searchContext.findElements(By. css/xpath("yourElement"));

    for (final WebElement webElement : webElementsWithText) {

        collectedText.add(webElement.getText());
    }
    return collectedText;
}