Webdriver findelements does not pick up inner html - webdriver

Question

I am trying to use the following code to extract the inner html of menu items but it only picks up the text that is in the same line for some reason. Here is the code:
WebElement ReportStart=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(text(),'Reports')]"));
List<WebElement> reports= ReportStart.findElements(By.xpath("//*[starts-with(#id, 'menu_')]"));
System.out.println(reports.size());
for (int i = 0; i < reports.size(); i++) {
System.out.println(reports.get(i).getAttribute("id"));
System.out.println(reports.get(i).getText());
}
It picks up all the id's but only the inner text of some of them and not nested one. So it picks up text Reports and id menu_1035 and menu_1036 but not the text General as it is not on the same line. Not sure why this is that findelements does not pick the whole web element
<li>
<a id="menu_1035" class="dynmenu" href="#">Reports</a>
<ul>
<li>
<a id="menu_1036" href="#">
General
<span class="dwn"/>
</a>
<ul>
</li>

Answer 1

Its not picking the text General as it is inner-html of li tag not a tag.
Your xpath only fetches element which has id - //*[starts-with(#id, 'menu_')]
If you want to get General text also, then you need to update your xpath' that points only tillli` element.
Hope it helps.