How to check whether the element text contains some text with python selenium?

Question

Selenium: test if element contains some text

It is possible to do in selenium IDE but I don't know how to do it with python and selenium.
I want to set a waiting that wait until that element contains part of the specified text. Thanks.

Answer 1

You can wait for element like this :

from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
element = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, 'someid')))

extract the text like this :

actual_text = element.text

check whether it contains expected text or not like this:

self.assertIn('expected_string_here', actual_text) 

or like this :

print expected_string_here == actual_text

Answer 2

Yes, you can use this:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC


WebDriverWait(self.driver, 30).until(
        EC.text_to_be_present_in_element(By.ID, 'your_element_id', "The_text_you_are_looking_for"))

The element can be located by class name, css_selector, xpath etc.
The By.ID and the element locator should be updated accordingly