Selenium Note: Element get text with leading spaces

<html>
<body>

<h2 title=”I’m a header”> Leading Space</h2>

</body>
</html>

myElement = driver.find_element_by_tag_name("h2")
text = myElement.text

What do you think the result is ? “Leading Space” or ” Leading Space” ?

Let’s check the official document first :

Get the visible (i.e. not hidden by CSS) innerText of this element, including sub-elements, without any leading or trailing whitespace.

Indeed, the getText method will trim the leading spaces before return the result.

I checked it during debug selenium test, please see the screenshot below:

leading space