How to get the text from a webpage element using Selenium - html

Question

I am trying to get a series of text from a web element, but unable to.
The HTML code is as follows:
<span class="versionInfo">
<span class="menu-highight">SoftFEPVis (GUI): </span> == $0
"1.6.4"
</span>
Where SoftFEPVis (GUI): and 1.6.4 are the texts which I would like to be able extract.
I am able to locate the element, and print out its class (menu-highlight), but un-able to extract SoftFEPVis (GUI): and 1.6.4.
I tried :
Version_Number = Browser.find_element(By.XPATH,'//[#id="versionDropDown"]/div/span[3]/span').getText()
and got an error:
'WebElement' object has no attribute getText.
Please help.

Answer 1

Instead of using .getText() you could use:
.get_attribute('innerText')
or
.get_attribute('innerHtml')
or
.text
If it helps, here is a more in-depth discussion of the topic:
Given a (python) selenium WebElement can I get the innerText?

Answer 2

getText() is a Selenium Java client method, where as from your code trials and the error message presumably you are using Selenium Python client.
Solution
To print the text SoftFEPVis (GUI): and 1.6.4 you can use the text attribute and you can use either of the following locator strategies:
Using css_selector and get_attribute("innerHTML"):
print(Browser.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "span.versionInfo").text)
Using xpath and text attribute:
print(Browser.find_element(By.XPATH, "//span[#class='versionInfo']").text)
Note : You have to add the following imports :
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By