How to get the content of the element using explicit wait instead of sleep() using Selenium and Java

Question

I'm trying to get the content of an element. I've implemented an explicit wait of 20 seconds before the statement of getting content. But I can't get the content. I can get the content of the element if I use sleep() for 2 seconds. The code I tried is:

WebDriverWait wait1 = new WebDriverWait(driver,20);
wait1.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("XPath")));
String value = driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath")).getAttribute("text-content");
System.out.println("Value is : " + value);

Output - Value is : 

The code with sleep():

WebDriverWait wait1 = new WebDriverWait(driver,20);
Thread.sleep(2000);
String value = driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath")).getAttribute("text-content");
System.out.println("Value is : " + value);

Output - Value is : $0.00

I'm not getting the value if I use implicit wait also. It is recommended not to use sleep(). Using explicit wait is always the best practice. Why am I not getting the content of the element using explicit wait?

Answer 1

The relevant HTML would have helped us to debug the issue in a better way. However as the desired text contains the $ character so a better approach will be to induce WebDriverWait for the expectation for checking if the given text is present in the element and you can use either of the following solutions:

• textToBePresentInElementLocated:

  System.out.println(new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.textToBePresentInElementLocated(By.xpath("xpath"), "$")).getAttribute("text-content"));
  

• textToBePresentInElementValue:

  System.out.println(new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.textToBePresentInElementValue(By.xpath("xpath"), "$")).getAttribute("text-content"));