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.getText fails on element

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it seems that it is impossible to get a text of some text here element. It works fine on  element for example.

Does anyone else has the same issue? Am I missing something?

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:5 (1 by maintainers)

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danieldramcommented, Nov 9, 2017

This still is present in the latest release. I have the same issue.

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EduardoMontanhacommented, Jan 6, 2017

This issue is happening to me now. I’m unable to get the text inside span elements. result.value returns as an empty string.

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