Error Own Text of UI element on web page

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Hello colleagues.

When activating the "Get details of element on web page" function (Own Text) - an error "Failed to retrieve attribute 'Own Text' of UI element on web page" appears.

Here is the web browser window itself, from where I want to retrieve text:

Here are the default selector settings:

121110987654

Can you tell me how to set the selector settings correctly so that the next time I change the number digits it finds it?
I tried in the selector settings to erase the number, replace it with "*", "$", but it does not find it (the next time I change this number).

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Riyaz_riz11 4,191 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @absentia8 ,
Did you tried with Extract data from web page action.
Same you can select and right click and extract values.

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Ahammad Riyaz
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@Ahammad_Riyaz Thanks for your feedback. I didn't quite get you right and don't understand what you mean.
As shown in my very first screenshot, I want PAD to read the text from the web page element and in the next step PAD will write that text into Excel.
Please give me a clarification of what you mean @Ahammad_Riyaz ?

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Please look at this solution.

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Ahammad Riyaz
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absentia8 205 on at

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К сожалению, это тоже не сработало @Ahammad_Riyaz

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My observations.
I pressed "Test selector" and did the test. As you can see in the screenshot, green ticks are displayed everywhere. But, where it says "Default Selector" a green checkmark should be displayed too, but it's not there. And when you hover over the yellow icon, a notification appears that I don't understand. Maybe someone can understand what this notification means?

Test a selector - Power Automate | Microsoft Learn

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Problem solved! The topic is not relevant.
The problem was as follows:
In the previous step in my thread, a new tab was opened in the browser and PAD for some reason tried to read information not from the active tab, but from the first one.
In general, I installed the plugin in the browser "Death To _blank". It prohibits opening tabs in a new window. My problem was solved this way.

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