Get Paragraph Text in Selenium Python
To get text of a paragraph element in Selenium Python, you can read the text attribute of the paragraph WebElement.
For example, if my_para is the given paragraph WebElement, then the syntax to get the text of this paragraph is
my_para.textThe text property returns a string value representing the text in the paragraph element.
Examples
In this example, we shall consider loading the HTML file at URL https://pythonexamples.org/tmp/selenium/index-10.html . The contents of this HTML file is given below.
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<h2>Hello User!</h2>
<p id="msg">This is my <strong>first</strong> paragraph. This is a sample text. Welcome!</p>
<div id="mydiv">
<div class="child">Child 1</div> <div class="child">Child 2</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Now, we shall get the paragraph with id=”msg” and print the text of this paragraph to standard output.
Python Program (Selenium)
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
# Setup chrome driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install()))
# Navigate to the url
driver.get('https://pythonexamples.org/tmp/selenium/index-10.html')
# Find the paragraph element
my_para = driver.find_element(By.ID, 'msg')
# Get the paragraph text
para_text = my_para.text
print(para_text)
# Close the browser
driver.quit()Output
This is my first paragraph. This is a sample text. Welcome!Please observe the output. Even though there is a <strong> element inside the paragraph, that element is replaced with the visible text. So, the text property of a paragraph element returns just the text.
Summary
In this Python Selenium tutorial, we learned how to get the text of a paragraph element in a webpage, using WebElement.text property in Selenium.