retrieve text from <p> on landing page using ruby watir - ruby

Question

I have to retrieve the text from the web page and put it on console.
I am not able to get the text from this html below. Can anyone please help me on this.
<div class="twelve columns">
<h1>Your product</h1>
<p>21598: DECLINE: Decline - Property Type not acceptable under this contract</p>
<div class="row">
</div>
I tried b.div(:class => 'twelve columns').exist? on irb and it says true.
I tried this - b.div(:class => 'twelve columns').text, and it returns me the text on the header not in paragraph.
I tried with - b.div(:class => 'twelve columns').p.text, it returned me error - unable to locate element, using {:tag_name=>"p"}

Answer 1

Simply doing this on example you wrote worked for me:
browser.div(:class => 'twelve columns').p.text
Your best bet would be to check your page css for actually having provided elements structure, as well as that they are nested properly.

Answer 2

I slightly fixed you HTML:
<div class="twelve columns">
<h1>Your product</h1>
<p>21598: DECLINE: Decline - Property Type not acceptable under this contract</p>
<div class="row"></div>
</div>
Let's do a tiny example:
div = b.div(:class => 'twelve columns')
Enumeration of elements as follows:
div.elements.each do |e|
p e
end
Will do something like that:
<Watir::HTMLElement ... # <h1>Your product</h1>
<Watir::HTMLElement ... # <p>21598: DECLINE: Decline - Property Type not acceptable under this contract</p>
<Watir::HTMLElement ... #<div class="row">
If you want to specify child element P from the DIV do this:
p = div.p
or
p = div.element( :tag_name => 'p' )
And when get text of P:
p.text # >> 21598: DECLINE: Decline - Property Type not acceptable under this contract
Or event do with your single string:
b.div(:class => 'twelve columns').p.text
=> "21598: DECLINE: Decline - Property Type not acceptable under this contract"