How can I get text of an element in Selenium WebDriver, without including child element text?

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Here’s a general solution:

def get_text_excluding_children(driver, element):
    return driver.execute_script("""
    return jQuery(arguments[0]).contents().filter(function() {
        return this.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE;
    }).text();
    """, element)

The element passed to the function can be something obtained from the find_element...() methods (i.e., it can be a WebElement object).

Or if you don’t have jQuery or don’t want to use it, you can replace the body of the function above with this:

return self.driver.execute_script("""
var parent = arguments[0];
var child = parent.firstChild;
var ret = "";
while(child) {
    if (child.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE)
        ret += child.textContent;
    child = child.nextSibling;
}
return ret;
""", element)

I’m actually using this code in a test suite.

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