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Posted on by Liyea 2

Hi All,

I'm new at Power Automate. I have trouble getting a span element text on the website.

The flow needs that text to search data in excel.

The span only has class and text properties.

I already tried using contain operator to find it. The flows still cannot find the span, even using the text to get that span.

Is there any solution to find it?

 

Liyea_2-1678420652370.png

 

Thanks,

Liyea

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  • Gidi Profile Picture
    Gidi 601 on at

    Sometimes the upper right switch to set to customize view makes difference. Try to run it with switch on. 

     

    Otherwise:

    Instead of get details of element you can try to use the action to extract data from web page. 

  • Liyea Profile Picture
    Liyea 2 on at

    Thanks for your reply.

    I have tried extract data from web page or customize view, too.

    The flow cannot find the text with those methods either.

  • Nived_Nambiar Profile Picture
    Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @Liyea 

     

    If you want to find that span element by class attribute, use this jquery selector

    span.ui-selectmenu-item-header

     

    More details on jquery selector refer this link:

    https://www.w3schools.com/jquery/jquery_ref_selectors.asp

     

    Kindly mark it as solution if this helps in resolving ur doubt

  • ryule Profile Picture
    ryule 929 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Try unchecking 16 and 17

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