I have a script going using Selenium and on a new window pop up I am trying to retrieve this element:
<div class="custom-control p-2">somenumber</div>
The full path to this class is
html/body.modal-open/div#modalUserPRMLead.modal.fade.show/div.modal-dialog/div.modal-content/div.modal-body/div.row.justify-content-center.p-3/div.col-md-12/div.custom-control.p-2
I have tried variants of these to grab just the text of ‘somenumber’
driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR,'row justify-content-center p-3').get_attribute('innerHTML')
driver.find_element(By.XPATH("html/body.modal-open/div.col-md-12./div.custom-control.p-2")).text
driver.find_element(By.XPATH("custom-control p-2")).text
driver.find_element(By.XPATH("div.row.justify-content-center.p-3")).text
driver.find_element(By.XPATH,custom-control p-2).text
driver.find_element(By.XPATH,div.custom-control.p-2).text
The errors I get is that it cannot locate the tag from current session. It’s a new window that pops up as a result of previous script, I did driver.current_url just to make sure it was capturing the link to the new window in current session and it was.
I’m not understanding how to index down to the div class and just grab the text. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The script prior to window pop for form input was much easier because I could tag everything using By.NAME or By.ID
>Solution :
Your CSS selector is wrong. XPaths don’t really looks like XPaths…
Try
driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//div[@class="custom-control p-2"]').text
or
driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, 'custom-control').text
In case element is dynamic you might need to apply wait
You can also check basic syntax of XPath and CSS-selector