How do I get the text from the li tag - selenium-webdriver

Question

How do I get the text from the li tag? I want to find the text "Password is required." only, not the text inside strong tag.
<li><strong>Error:</strong> Password is required.</li>

Answer 1

You need to show your code for somebody to give a complete answer. I guess that you already know how to do something like the following
WebElement something = driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector(?))
string s = something.Text;
The next bit seems to be where you are stuck. There you need to parse the string s. That is nothing to do with Selenium-Webdriver. You could do something like
string[] s2 = s.split(new string[] {">","<"});
were the last element in s2 would be your answer here. This would be totally non generic though. Is this a situation in which you always want to purge html?

Answer 2

Here is the method developed in python.
def get_text_exclude_children(element):
return driver.execute_script(
"""
var parent = arguments[0];
var child = parent.firstChild;
var textValue = "";
while(child) {
if (child.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE)
textValue += child.textContent;
child = child.nextSibling;
}
return textValue;""",
element).strip()
How to use in this:
liElement = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//li")
liOnlyText = get_text_exclude_children(liElement)
print(liOnlyText)
Please use your possible strategy to get the element, this method need an element from which you need the text (without children text).