How to verify a Text present in the loaded page through WebDriver

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I need to verify a Text present in the page through WebDriver. I like to see the result as boolean (true or false). Can any one help on this by giving the WebDriver code?

In what programming language? What browser? Does the text always appear in the same element? Where? What element? — Arran, Nov 05 '12 at 14:18

score 9 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

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As zmorris points driver.getPageSource().contains("input"); is not the proper solution because it searches in all the html, not only the texts on it. I suggest to check this question: how can I check if some text exist or not in the page? and the recomended way explained by Slanec:

String bodyText = driver.findElement(By.tagName("body")).getText();
Assert.assertTrue("Text not found!", bodyText.contains(text));

edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

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answered Jun 18 '14 at 14:53

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Shouldn't it be: String bodyText = driver.findElement(By.tagName("body")).getText(); Assert.assertTrue(true, bodyText.contains(text)); – Cagy79 Aug 18 '15 at 22:49

score 4 · Answer 2 · 2013-01-31T07:45:20.543

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Yes, you can do that which returns boolean. The following java code in WebDriver with TestNG or JUnit can do:

protected boolean isTextPresent(String text){
    try{
        boolean b = driver.getPageSource().contains(text);
        return b;
    }
    catch(Exception e){
        return false;
    }
  }

Now call the above method as below:

assertTrue(isTextPresent("Your text"));

Or, there is another way. I think, this is the better way:

private StringBuffer verificationErrors = new StringBuffer();
try {
                  assertTrue(driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("BODY")).getText().matches("^[\\s\\S]*    Your text here\r\n\r\n[\\s\\S]*$"));
  } catch (Error e) {
     verificationErrors.append(e.toString());
   }

edited Jan 31 '13 at 07:45

answered Jan 31 '13 at 07:32

Your question seems to be lacking some information. 1) What language are you using? 2) Are you using any test framework as JUnit or TestNG? – Jan 31 '13 at 07:39
Yes, I prefer the last one of above answer – Ripon Al Wasim Jan 31 '13 at 09:00
This is a better solution as it can be leveraged for multiple text values – Bob Small Aug 12 '16 at 17:55
I don't think it will valid if the case is insensitive... – swdev Jun 18 '20 at 22:29

zmorris · Answer 3 · 2014-06-27T20:49:31.063

Driver.getPageSource() is a bad way to verify text present. Suppose you say, driver.getPageSource().contains("input"); That doesn't verify "input" is present on the screen, only that "input" is present in the html, like an input tag.

I usually verify text on an element by using xpath:

boolean textFound = false;  
try {
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(text(),'someText')]"));
    textFound = true;
} catch (Exception e) {
    textFound = false;
}

If you want an exact text match, just remove the contains function:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[text()='someText']));

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 05 '12 at 07:13

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If you are not bothered about the location of the text present, then you could use Driver.PageSource property as below:

Driver.PageSource.Contains("expected message");

answered Nov 05 '12 at 07:13

Pani Kumar

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Is there any way of finding the text without page source and more over i need to print True if the text exists any where in the page and False if the text doen't... – kranthi kumar Nov 05 '12 at 13:47

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Jan 22 '13 at 18:32

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Note: Not in boolean

WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://www.gmail.com");

if(driver.getPageSource().contains("Ur message"))
  {
    System.out.println("Pass");
  }
else
  {
    System.out.println("Fail");
  }

edited Jan 22 '13 at 18:32

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answered Jan 22 '13 at 18:11

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Ritesh Karwa · Answer 6 · 2015-07-14T00:56:56.350

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For Ruby programmers here is how you can assert. Have to include Minitest to get the asserts

    assert(@driver.find_element(:tag_name => "body").text.include?("Name"))

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answered Jul 13 '15 at 20:54

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Ashwini Kapoor · Answer 7 · 2016-12-19T13:53:25.977

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Below code is most suitable way to verify a text on page. You can use any one out of 8 locators as per your convenience.

String Verifytext= driver.findElement(By.tagName("body")).getText().trim(); Assert.assertEquals(Verifytext, "Paste the text here which needs to be verified");

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answered Dec 19 '16 at 13:33

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 20 '16 at 01:37

If you want check only displayed objects(C#):

    public bool TextPresent(string text, int expectedNumberOfOccurrences)
    {
        var elements = Driver.FindElements(By.XPath(".//*[text()[contains(.,'" + text + "')]]"));
        var dispayedElements = 0;
        foreach (var webElement in elements)
        {
            if (webElement.Displayed)
            {
                dispayedElements++;
            }
        }
        var allExpectedElementsDisplayed = dispayedElements == expectedNumberOfOccurrences;
        return allExpectedElementsDisplayed;
    }

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