Get Text Block

Retrieve the text content of an element.

• Element selector
  Element selector.

• Regex
  Matching the retrieved text against the regex

• Assign to variable
  Whether assign the text into a variable or not.

• Variable name
  Name of the variable to assign the text.

• Insert to table
  Whether insert the text into the table or not.

• Select column
  The column where the text will be inserted.

• Text prefix
  Add a prefix to the retrieved text.

• Text suffix
  Add a suffix to the retrieved text.

• Add extra row
  Insert an extra row into table.

• Include HTML tags
  Includes the HTML tags of the element itself and all its child elements. When you need to get the complete content including HTML tags.

  • Returns the complete HTML string of the element

  <!-- for example -->
  <div class="test">Hello <span style="display:none">hidden</span> world!</div>

  return <div class="test">Hello <span style="display:none">hidden</span> world!</div>

• Use textContent
  Retrieve all the text from the element even if the text is not visible on the screen. When you need to get all raw text content, regardless of style and visibility.

  • Returns the text content of the node and all its descendants
  • Returns text from all elements, including <script> and <style> elements
  • Returns text from hidden elements
  • Ignores styles and returns raw text

  return Hello hidden world!

If you do not select either option (which is also the default behavior), it will return as in the example above: Hello world

When you only need to get the text content is visible.

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Note

This block will not work without an active tab. Because of that, use the Active Tab block or New Tab block before using this block.