How to extract validation message using Selenium

Question

I am unable to extract validation messages using get text in selenium my HTML is

<div class="ant-alert-message"\>The email address or the password is incorrect. Please re-enter.</div\>

Answer 1

To print the validation message The email address or the password is incorrect. Please re-enter. you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using css_selector and get_attribute("innerHTML"):

  print(driver.find_element_by_css_selector("div.ant-alert-message").get_attribute("innerHTML"))
  

• Using xpath and text attribute:

  print(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='ant-alert-message'][contains(., 'address or the password')]").text) 
  

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Ideally you need to induce WebDriverWait for the presence_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR and text attribute:

  print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.ant-alert-message"))).text)
  

• Using XPATH and get_attribute():

  print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='ant-alert-message'][contains(., 'address or the password')]"))).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