java - How to write a locator and get both the text present in a single tag in HTML code for selenium automation

Question

This is my html code

<h2>==$0
"How"
 "Are You"
</h2>

Writing locator like //h2/text()[1] for getting "How" text and writing //h2/text()[2] for getting "Are You" text doesn't works for me. Throws the below error

onException - WebDriver error:
<font color= 'red' size='3.5'>org.openqa.selenium.InvalidSelectorException: invalid selector: The result of the xpath expression "//h2/text()[2]" is: [object Text]. It should be an element.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65948812/how-to-write-a-locator-and-get-both-the-text-present-in-a-single-tag-in-html-cod

Answer 1

text() doesn't return webelement node but the text content

use instead

//*[text()[contains(.,"Are You")]]

now find the text as

elem.text()

you have to use string operator to extract the specific text you want