java - Get visible text of page

Question

How do I get the visible text portion of a web page with selenium webdriver without the HTML tags?

I need something equivalent to the function HtmlPage.asText() from Htmlunit.

It is not enough to take the text with the function WebDriver.getSource and parse it with jsoup because there could be in the page hidden elements (by external CSS) which I am not interested in them.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18336956/get-visible-text-of-page

Answer 1

Doing By.tagName("body") (or some other selector to select the top element), then performing getText() on that element will return all of the visible text.