How to extract the text within an HTML tag (in Selenium IDE)?

The html looks something like this:

<p>
    sometext1
    <br>
    sometext2
    <br>
    sometext3
</p>

I would like to extract all the text between the paragraph tags, including the <br> tags.

I tried to use storeText function, but it stores only the text, without the tags. I could store the entire HTML sour开发者_如何学Cce and then extract what I need in Perl, but I was wondering if there is a way to store a block of HTML code using a specific xpath (e.g. store the HTML code for the third table in the webpage inside a variable).

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i will try with document.getElementById('id').innerHTML

you could use a getEval() with Javascript that return the innerHTML of the element. You'll have to find it in javascript, though

@Tarun: I would if I could man....

@Grooveek: Thanks man, that worked. I used:

 storeEval | window.document.getElementsByTagName("p").item(9).innerHTML | p

This saved the content of the 9th paragrah in the variable p. I had to use getElementsByTagName because the tags had no id's.

For more accuracy, one could use getElementById function insted:

 storeEval | window.document.getElementById("id of element").innerHTML | p

Hope this will help other people too. Thanks again.

I suggest this:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("url")
element = driver.find_element_by_tag_name("p")
text = element.text

But keep in mind if you are dealing with text-boxes, you can't use .text; it returns None. In that case you should use .get_attribute("value"), and when ever you are unable to catch what you want, you can use .get_attribute("innerHTML").

getAttribute("innerHTML"); works for me

I propose to find it by a class name, not all objects have it's Id.

storeEval | window.document.getElementsByClassName('*classname*')[0].innerHTML; | HTMLContent

number 0 will return first occurence. If there is more than one element, choose proper number, or get the number of class occurencies by .length

storeEval | window.document.getElementsByClassName('*classname*').length; | ClassCount