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I am trying to get the value of h1 as a string using selenium.

Here is the HTML javascript-

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(window).load(function() {    
        var $windowHeight = $(window).height() -12;
        $("#top").height($windowHeight);
        $('h1').css({
                'margin-top' : (($windowHeight) - $('h1').outerHeight())/2,
                'margin-bottom' : (($windowHeight) - $('h1').outerHeight())/2,
                'opacity' : '1.0',
                'filter' : 'alpha(opacity = 100)',
        });

        $("#container").click(function(){
            $("html, body").animate({ 
                scrollTop: $windowHeight + 50
            }, 1500);
        })

    });
    $(window).on("debouncedresize", function( event ) {
        var $windowHeight = $(window).height() -12;
        $("#top").height($windowHeight);
        $('h1').css({
                'margin-top' : (($windowHeight) - $('h1').outerHeight())/2,
                'margin-bottom' : (($windowHeight) - $('h1').outerHeight())/2
        });
    });
</script>

Here is what I've written in JAVA-

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); 
    driver.get("view-source:http://websitename.com/");
    Thread.sleep(3000);
    JavascriptExecutor js = null;
    if (driver instanceof JavascriptExecutor) {
        js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
    }
    js.executeScript("h1");

Not sure if I should be using JavascriptExecutor in the first place. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks

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Hi AnV, and welcome to stackoverflow. We need a bit more information before we can answer your question - what exactly are you trying to get, when you say 'the value of h1'? Do you want the user-visible text in the h1 heading, or the full html of the h1 tag, or the css, or something else? –  vincebowdren Jul 4 '13 at 10:04
 
Hi vincebowdren, thanks. Yes, I'm trying to get the user-visible text in the h1 heading. Thanks for your reply. –  osrrev Jul 6 '13 at 11:42
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h1 is a tag on the page. Why do you try accessing it using JavascriptExecutor? If you want to get text of the header h1 simply use such code 

String text = driver.findElement(By.css("h1")).getText();

If you want to get an attribute of the tag use this code instead

String attr= driver.findElement(By.css("h1")).getAttribute(<attr-name>);
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Hey, thanks for your reply. Yes, I want to get the text of the header h1. After running String text = driver.findElement(By.css("h1")).getText(); I'm getting this error- The method css(String) is undefined for the type By –  osrrev Jul 6 '13 at 11:40
 
Replaced css by cssSelector. The error is gone but it still doesn't work. –  osrrev Jul 6 '13 at 11:50
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It works now! I was supposed to get the source of the page by using driver.getPageSource(); Not by driver.get("view-source:websitename.com/"). Stupid me. Thanks for the help! :)

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Why are you getting the entire source of the page at all? It really is more efficient to use a call like getText() or get Attribute() to find the precise information you want. –  vincebowdren Jul 8 '13 at 8:12
 
Do I not have to use driver.get() at all? Can you maybe give me an example? –  osrrev Jul 8 '13 at 12:59
 
The answer posted by user2525437 has examples of what I mean. –  vincebowdren Jul 8 '13 at 15:41
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