How to extract the text from the sibling text nodes of the strong tag using Selenium and Java

Question

There are 52 page objects as follows, all of which has Strong tag containing a String called "Gideon". How possibly can I get all of them by findElements method?

Answer 1

The "quotes" are within a text nodes. So to retrieve the text you have to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_all_elements_located() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• xpath:

  List<WebElement> parentElements = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfAllElementsLocatedBy(By.xpath("//strong[text()='Gideon']//..")));
  for (WebElement parentElement:parentElements)
      System.out.println(((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("return arguments[0].lastChild.textContent;", parentElement).toString());
  

• xpath with preceding:

  List<WebElement> parentElements = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfAllElementsLocatedBy(By.xpath("//strong[text()='Gideon']//preceding::p[1]")));
  for (WebElement parentElement:parentElements)
      System.out.println(((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("return arguments[0].lastChild.textContent;", parentElement).toString());