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Html – I want to only extract the content of li without the contents of span in Python Selenium WebDriver

So here is the sample html doc:

<div id="div1">
<ul class="lists"> 
<li class="listItem1">
List content
<span class="span1">span text</span>
</li>
</ul>
</div>

I only want to extract "List content"

If I do this:

elementList = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "/div/ul/li")
elementList.text

I get : List content span text

If I do this:

elementList = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "/div/ul/li[1]")

I still get List content span text

What can I do to only get
"List content" without the span text

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Answers


  1. 0

    Try text() option, it will return the text present in the li tag

    elementList = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//div/ul/li/text()")

    OR

    elementList = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "normalize-space(//div/ul/li/text())")

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  2. 0 
    elementList = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//li[@class='listItem1']").text
span_text = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//span[@class='span1']").text
elementList = elementList.replace(span_text, "")

    This might be a little long winded, but I think it should do the trick.

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