Im doing some scrapping with selenium Python, my problem is that, when I call WebElement.text() it gives me a string in one line with no format. But I want to get that text just as the web shows, that is, with the line breaks.

For example, the element with text:

<br>'Hello this is an example'<br>

In the web it shows as:

<br>
'Hello this is an<br> 
example'

I want the second result, but Selenium gives me the first one. I tried to 'manually' give format to the text using the width of the words with PIL, but the results are quite unexact.

CodePudding user response：

Instead of using the text attribute, you need to use the get_attribute("innerHTML") as follows:

print(WebElement.get_attribute("innerHTML"))

You can find a relevant discussion in How to retrieve the text of a WebElement using Selenium - Python

References

Link to useful documentation:

• get_attribute() method Gets the given attribute or property of the element.
• text attribute returns The text of the element.
• Difference between text and innerHTML using Selenium