How can I get the element of a-tag in the div class with selenium? - html

Question

I recently work on the project that I have to get the element from a specific website.
I want to get the text elements that are something below.
<div class="block-content">
<div class="block-heading">
<a href="https://www~~~~~~">
<i class="fa fa-map">
::before
</i>
"Text I want to get"
</a>
</div>
</div>
I have been trying to solve this for a while, but I could not find anything working fine.
I would love you if you could help me.
Thank you.

Answer 1

According to the information you provided the text you are looking for is inside a element so the xpath for this element is something like:
//a[contains(#href,'https://www')]
But since there is also i element inside it, getting the text from a element will give you both text contained in a itself and the text inside the i.
So you should get the text from i that is looking like just a (space) here and reduce it from the text you are receiving from the a.
In case you want to perform this action on all the a elements containing href and i element inside it you can use the following xpath:
//a[#href and ./i]
If there are more specific definitions about the elements you are looking for - the xpath I mentioned should be updated accordingly

Answer 2

From your comment, I understood that you would like to extract that text. So here is the code for you which would extract the text you want.
Selenium::WebDriver::Wait
.new(timeout: 60)
.until { !driver.find_element(xpath: "//i[#class='fa fa-map-marker']/..").text.empty? }
p driver.find_element(xpath: "//i[#class='fa fa-map-marker']/..").text[/(?<=before \")\w+ \w+ \w+ \w+ \w+/]
output
"Text I want to get"

Answer 3

I couldn't get the elements that I wanted directly, so here's what I did.
It is just that I did modify the elements with some methods though.
def seller_name
shop_info_elements = #driver.find_elements(:class_name, "block-content")
shop_info_text= shop_info_elements.first.text
shop_info_text_array = shop_info_text.lines
seller_name = shop_info_text_array.first.chomp
seller_name
end
It is not beautiful, but it can work for any other pages on the same site.