I.getText()

Gets the visible text content of an element.

This returns the text as seen by the user, with HTML markup removed.

Usage

var text = I.getText(element: string)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
element	string	Target element — by CSS or XPath selector

Returns

Returns the visible text content of the element as a string.

Example

I.click("Show passphrase")
var passphrase = I.getText(".passphrase")
TEST.log.info("Passphrase: ", passphrase)

In this example, the test retrieves the visible text from the .passphrase element using I.getText() and logs the value to the test report.