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Asked: 2026-05-15T19:10:14+00:00

I am using Watir to write some tests for a web application. I need

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I am using Watir to write some tests for a web application. I need to get the text ‘Bishop’ from the HTML below but can’t figure out how to do it.

<div id="dnn_ctr353_Main_ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_ctl07_Field_048b9dfa-bc64-42e4-8bd5-b45385e5f45b_view" style="display: block;">
   <div class="workprolabel wpFieldLabel">
    <span title="Please select a courtesy title from the list.">Title</span>&nbsp;<span class="validationIndicator wpValidationText"></span>
   </div>
   <span class="wpFieldViewContent" id="dnn_ctr353_Main_ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_ctl07_Field_048b9dfa-bc64-42e4-8bd5-b45385e5f45b_view_value"><p class="wpFieldValue ">Bishop</p></span>
  </div>

Firebug tells me the xpath is:

html/body/form/div[5]/div[6]/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/span/span/div[2]/div[4]/div[1]/span[1]/div[2]/span/p/text()

but I cant format the element_by_xpath to pick it up.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should be able to access the paragraph right away if it’s unique:

    my_p = browser.p(:class, "wpFieldValue ")
my_text = my_p.text

    See HTML Elements Supported by Watir

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