Getting different texts from the HTML DOM through Selenium and Python

Question

Look the below code.:

<tr>

    <td>

    </td>


    <td>

    </td>


    <td>

    </td>


    <td>

    </td>


    <td>

        text1

        <br>

        <img>

        <br>

        text2

    </td>

</tr>

When I try to get the text in the 5th td like so:

something = elem.find_element_by_xpath('./td[5]').text

I save/get both texts in the same variable. Can I get them in an individual variables so that we can avoid splitting it? Any suggestions….????

something = elem.find_element_by_xpath('./td[5]/text()[1]')

I get the following error message:

InvalidSelectorException: invalid selector: 

The result of the xpath expression "./td[5]/text()[1]" is: [object Text]. 

It should be an element.

Above is the error:

Answer 1

Try Below code:

something = elem.find_element_by_xpath('./td[5]')

text1 = driver.execute_script('return arguments[0].firstChild.textContent;', something).strip()

text2 = driver.execute_script('return arguments[0].lastChild.textContent;', something).strip()

Ty to get two separate text nodes