Get text from popup menu using Python's Selenium

Question

When you hover over the i you get a popup menu.

I want to get the last item of the popup 3,0 using Python's Selenium.

But however, it's not working for me. What do I do wrong?

a = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="articlelist"]/form/div[1]/div[2]/div/div/span/div/div[3]/div[2]').text
print(a)

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Answer 1

To print the text 3,0 you can use either of the following locator strategies:

• Using xpath and text attribute:

  print(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//div[@class='subinfo']/div[@class='art_popup_infobox']/div[@class='art_popup_line_wrapper'][./div[starts-with(., 'Durchmesser')]]//div[@class='art_popup_info']").text)
  

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Ideally to extract the text 3,0 you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

• Using XPATH and get_attribute("innerHTML"):

  print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='subinfo']/div[@class='art_popup_infobox']/div[@class='art_popup_line_wrapper'][./div[starts-with(., 'Durchmesser')]]//div[@class='art_popup_info']"))).get_attribute("innerHTML"))
  

• Note : You have to add the following imports :

  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
  

You can find a relevant discussion in How to retrieve the text of a WebElement using Selenium - Python

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References

Link to useful documentation:

• get_attribute() method Gets the given attribute or property of the element.
• text attribute returns The text of the element.
• Difference between text and innerHTML using Selenium