How To Retrieve Text From An Element Using Selenium Webdriver And Java

I'm trying to retrieve text of an element with == $0. I tried to use JS injection ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript('return arguments[0].value', driver.findElement(By.cs

Solution 1:

As the texts Shooting and Pedestrian Accident are within elements which are text nodes, so to extract the texts you can use the following solutions:

WebElement myElement = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.settings")); 
//extracting Shooting
System.out.println(((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("return arguments[0].firstChild.textContent;", myElement).toString());
//extracting Pedestrian Accident
System.out.println(((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("return arguments[0].lastChild.textContent;", myElement).toString());