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Asked: 2026-06-11T03:23:33+00:00

I was wondering if anyone can help me store a string then use it

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I was wondering if anyone can help me store a string then use it else here in a different definition.

so lets say for example, 

<html>
     <body>
          <div id="example">
               143453
          </div>
     </body>
</html>

How could I store the number 143453 as a string, so I can use it elsewhere?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Simply ask for the text of the element and store it in a variable:

    number = browser.div(:id, "example").text

    Another way is to use an HTML parser, such as Nokogiri. If you do a lot of parsing, this may provide extra speed. Somewhere you’ll need to require 'nokogiri' then you can do this:

    number = Nokogiri::HTML(browser.html).at_css("div#example").text
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