How to get a text from following div using Selenium Webdriver
java, selenium, selenium-webdriver
Solution
Don't use meaningless XPath. Your error message tells you "NoSuchElement", so you had your locator wrong, which has nothing to do with getText (not yet). Try using CssSelector or meaningful XPath:
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("#ctrlNotesWindow .notesData > .notesDate")).getText();
Problem
I am trying to get the text content of the items inside the following 2 div elements but getting an error that the element cannot be found. For example the text content for first div is "Text1". How can I get that text? So far, I have tried: ``` driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='ctrlNotesWindow']/div[3]/ul/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]")).getText()) ``` and that complains of not finding that element. Here is the html code: ``` <div class="notesData"> <div class="notesDate" data-bind="text: $.format('{0} - {1}', moment(Date).format('MMM DD, YYYY h:mm a'), User)">Text1</div> <div class="notesText" data-bind="text: Note">Text2 on next line</div> </div> ``` Here is the error, I get: Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[@id='ctrlNotesWindow']/div[3]/ul/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]"}