Python not returning the text from the H3 tag

Question

The structure that I am looking at is the following

<div id="historyContainer">
    <div class id="offerHistory">
        <div class="theTitle">…</div>
        <br>
        <p>…</p>
        <br>
        <h3>Title</h3>
    </div>
</div>

Here is my Python

offerHistory = browser.find_element_by_id('offerHistory')
title = offerHistory.find_elements_by_tag_name('h3')
print(title)

This is what prints

[<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="d7aef4eab17ec32e0280c1177b5016d9", element="eaf8e28e-9620-4e94-81a8-f7e13edc2c48")>]

How do I print 'Title'?

Does this answer your question? [Python and how to get text from Selenium element WebElement object?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28022764/python-and-how-to-get-text-from-selenium-element-webelement-object) — Chris L., Mar 03 '20 at 14:38
The return value is a list, so if you only want the first one (because you know you only have one): `print(title[0].text)` should work — ChatterOne, Mar 03 '20 at 14:46
If you get index out of bounds, then that output is not what you get, because it shows a list `[]` — ChatterOne, Mar 03 '20 at 14:58

zvi · Answer 1 · 2020-03-03T14:43:20.113

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Add ".text":

title = browser.find_elements_by_tag_name('h3')
print(title.text)

edited Mar 03 '20 at 14:43

answered Mar 03 '20 at 14:36

zvi

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I get an error when I do that. Attribute Error, list object has no attribute 'text' – letsCode Mar 03 '20 at 14:42
Not ideal as the h3 is in this specific block. – letsCode Mar 03 '20 at 14:50
If I understand correctly `find_elements_by_tag_name` returns a list. In order for this code to work, you either have to iterate over `title` or use a dict comprehension. `print([t.text for t in title])` – denys.halenok Mar 03 '20 at 14:50
@denys.halenok this prints out [u'Hello World']. If I do t.text[0], it will print out [u'H']. How can I have it just print Hello World? – letsCode Mar 03 '20 at 14:58
@soldfor Try this: `for t in title: print(t.text)` – denys.halenok Mar 03 '20 at 15:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 03 '20 at 23:25

You were close. Within the <div class id="offerHistory"> parent node:

<div class id="offerHistory">
    <div class="theTitle">…</div>
    <br>
    <p>…</p>
    <br>
    <h3>Title</h3>
</div>

There is only one <h3> tag which is correctly returned by:

title = offerHistory.find_elements_by_tag_name('h3')

So when you print(title) the element is printed as:

[<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="d7aef4eab17ec32e0280c1177b5016d9", element="eaf8e28e-9620-4e94-81a8-f7e13edc2c48")>]

In your usecase you are looking to extract the text Title from the <h3> node and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using css_selector and get_attribute():

print(driver.find_element_by_css_selector("div#offerHistory h3").get_attribute("innerHTML"))

Using xpath and text attribute:

print(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='offerHistory']//h3").text)

Python not returning the text from the H3 tag

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