Don't capture child element from main div

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Hey guys,

I want to create xpath which will return only text and i am able to capture that element also from katalon

current scenario :
Html look like this

<div class="info">
     <div class="alert" role="alert">
         <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close"><span aria-hidden="true">×</span></button>
         Success Message
     </div>
</div>

I have tried with below xpath but it will return text like.
x
Success Message

//div[@class="info"]/div

it will also return cross sign from button ‘x’, i want only “Success Message”

i don’t want button text, so please suggest xpath for this

thanks!

2

Hello,
unfortunately it’s not possible … only way is to remove text of child using groovy script
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/webdriver/3mbMXA3sdlA

3

If your HTML has an enclosing tag for ‘Success Message’ text, for example as follows:

<div class="info">
    <div class="alert" role="alert">
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close">            <span aria-hidden="true">×</span>        </button>
        <span>Success Message</span>
    </div>
</div>

Then you write a XPath:

//div[@class="info"]/div/span

And you will get the following output:

Success Message

But in fact your HTML does not have the enclosing tag. Therefore, as Andrej pointed out, you can not write a XPath which returns “Success Message” text out of the given HTML.

4

actually, there is xpath that will return only text, but cannot be used anywhere (even in my support lib)

//div[@class="info"]/div/text()
5

:slight_smile: