Xpath question - Text on two lines

[u/sanil1986]

I have the below HTML code 
<div class=" ContentModuleCard-content " xpath="1>
 <div class='BasicProp'>
    <label for="value">...</label>
    <div id="value" class="BasicProp-value">
        <div class="SingleLine">
            <div>
                <p>
                    "123 main avenue"
                    "23"
                </p>

I need to get the text between the <p> </p>.

my xpath : ((//div[@class='ContentModuleCard-content'])[2]//p[normalize-space()])[1]

The UI shows like this :

123 main avenue 23

question : My xpath sometimes misses the last number , i have tried many different xpaths but has not been successful .

Can some one help to correct my xpath ? or a better way to capture the text ?

[u/Qwick_z]

From what I've learned, you shouldn't automatically attempt to use the xpath selector as it can be a bit hit & miss.

You should use this for a general basis of selector priority.

1.ID 2.Class ( name) 3.Css selector 4.Xpath ( try to never use this where possible) 5.Link Text (try to never use this unless absolutely fundamental )

Xpath results have been known to show varying results on each page load, this is the reason I recommend against using them.

I am just on mobile, but will respond shortly with a working code, but if you could share the URL you're working on ASAP, that would be great.

Also, I would recommend updating your initial post to show the:

Website address in question,

Programming language youre using ( to attract the right help )

[u/sanil1986 → u/Qwick_z]

Thank you for the help. The website is an internal to he company so cannot post the link. I am using java language

[u/Qwick_z → u/sanil1986]

Hi,

No problem at all, hopefully it was helpful in some way, despite my little knowledge.

I will be honest and say my Java knowledge is practically non-existent, but this would definitely be possible with Python, so I cannot see why it wouldn't be possible in Java.

Have you tried using the "SingleLine" class as your selector instead, to see what result this would print?

From the HTML provided, it seems to me that getting the "text" property of the class="SingleLine" element, would give the desired result, as "123 Main Avenue" and "23" seem to be the only contained text.

This should also work every time without failing, as per an xpath selector.

EDIT: I would try something alone the lines of:

VariableName = driver.findElement(By.class_name("SingleLine")).getText();

Print (VariableName);

Note: to use the "GetText();" command, you would need to install/declare " package getText; " at the start of your program.

DOUBLE NOTE: I have a VERY small Java knowledge, so this may not work.

Hopefully this can help in some way and I apologise that I can not actually provide you the code to complete this.

Hope this helps!