How to convert a web element's name store into string?

Question

The below code stored a list of the web element name. Is there any way to convert in string

List<WebElement>title=driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@class='document-card__details']//h3"));

Answer 1

Instead of storing the WebElements you may like to store the textContent using Java8's stream() and map() you can use the following solution:

• cssSelector:

  List<String> titles = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfAllElementsLocatedBy(By.cssSelector("div.document-card__details h3"))).stream().map(element->element.getText()).collect(Collectors.toList());
  

• xpath:

  List<String> titles = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfAllElementsLocatedBy(By.xpath("//div[@class='document-card__details']//h3"))).stream().map(element->element.getText()).collect(Collectors.toList());
  

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References

You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

• How to extract the dynamic values of the id attributes of the table elements using Selenium and Java
• How to print all the button texts within the url using Selenium through Java