How to extract the text of the logged in user through Xpath

Question

After logged in, there is a welcome "user name" message,

I want to write the xpath to capture that user. A few ideas I have tried:

//span[@id='WhoLoggedInUpdatePanel']//h1//br[contains(text(),'Welcome Sheikh')]

//h1[contains(text(),'"Welcome Sheikh"')]

None of those are working. Your suggestion would be very helpful.

Nothing in your example contains the text "Welcome Sheikh" - there are a LOT of space characters between the words ! Check out the normalize-space function - eg https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1829176/how-to-get-the-normalize-space-xpath-function-to-work (also, the
tag is not "correct" html, since it's an unclosed tag - should be "
" - which also means it doesn't contain any text) — racraman, Dec 17 '18 at 04:16

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 17 '18 at 04:49

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Try the below one to get text

String user = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[@id='WhoLoggedInUpdatePanel']/h1").getAtrribute("innerText");

edited Dec 17 '18 at 04:49

miken32

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answered Dec 17 '18 at 04:27

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 17 '18 at 05:04

Its not good to locate using the name because if login credential get changed then name will be change.

Use //span[@id='WhoLoggedInUpdatePanel']/h1 and grab the text what present under <h1> or equivalent CSS selector span[id='WhoLoggedInUpdatePanel']>h1

String userName = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[@id='WhoLoggedInUpdatePanel']/h1")).getText();

and then verify whether your use is expected.

if(userName.contains("Sheikh")){
    System.out.println("valid user");
} else {
    System.out.println("invalid user");
}

Your CSS selector should be `#WhoLoggedInUpdatePanel > h1`. It's simpler, shorter and accomplishes the same thing. — JeffC, Dec 17 '18 at 16:33

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 17 '18 at 05:45

To extract the text Welcome Sheikh, as it is a text node within its ancestor <h1> node, you need to use the method executeScript() and you can use the following solution:

WebElement myElement = driver.findElement(By.xpath("///span[@id='WhoLoggedInUpdatePanel']/h1"));
String myText = ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript('return arguments[0].lastChild.textContent;', myElement).toString();

How to extract the text of the logged in user through Xpath

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