# Get HTML Element
This action can be used to scrape web content from an HTML page, by isolating elements given through an Identifier or CSS Selector.
The resulting selected value (which is stored as a String), is output to an internally defined variable.
## Properties
### **Input**
* **Identifier**: Indicate a new UI element, or select from the already defined list of selectors.
* **CSS Selector:** It is used to "find" (or select) the HTML elements more precisely.
* **URL**: The URL link of the page containing the CSS selector.
### **Misc**
* **Display Name**: action display name in your implementation project
* **Wait Before**: number milliseconds robot to wait before executing the action.
* **Wait After:** number milliseconds robot to wait until moving to the next action.
* **Abort on Error**: True/False
* **Retry Times**: Specifies the number of times to retry an action if it doesn't end successfully. Default value 0 (no retry); Use -1 if you want to retry indefinitely.
### **Output**
* **Output**: set already defined variables as output, or define a new one.
## **Use Case**
### **Potential Use Cases**
* Extract important information from elements in web pages.
* Extract information from online tables and data grids.
* Automate the process of prospecting by extracting relevant information about companies from web platforms.
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