[C#][gecko]get text from span class

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Hello ! So, i am creating a project using Gecko(firefox) browser written in C#. I am stuck at a specific thing. I want to get the text of a span class, which doesn't have an ID. Here is the code:

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I tried several ways to take this piece of data, but nothing seems work.... and google this is as far as it could get me. Any ideas ? Thanks in advance.

What I have tried:

I tried to get all class elements and loop through them, and some other stuff.

C#

var links = GeckoWB.Document.GetElementsByTagName("span");
            foreach (var link in links)
            {
                if (link.GetAttribute("ipsNotificationCount ipsHide") == "data-currentcount")
                {
                    
                }
            }

Posted 14-Feb-17 0:31am

xXxRevolutionxXx

Updated 14-Feb-17 3:16am

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madhav_jain 14-Feb-17 7:22am

what u have tried and describe more about it.

xXxRevolutionxXx 14-Feb-17 7:29am

I updated the question.

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-14T03:16:00

The string you pass to the GetAttribute[^] method is the name of the attribute you want to retrieve.

You are passing in the value of the attribute called class. That will not work. There is no such attribute, and there never can be, because attribute names cannot contain spaces.

You could change your test to:

C#

if (link.GetAttribute("class") == "ipsNotificationCount ipsHide")
{
    ...
}

But that would be inefficient, and likely to break if the order of the class names changed, or another class was added to the element.

Instead, use the GetElementsByClassName[^] method to find the element(s) with the specified class:

C#

var links = GeckoWB.Document.GetElementsByClassName("ipsNotificationCount");
foreach (var link in links)
{
    string value = link.GetAttribute("data-currentcount");
    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(value))
    {
        int currentCount;
        if (int.TryParse(value, out currentCount))
        {
            ...
        }
    }
}