How to get entered text from a textbox in Selenium

Question

I enter a value in TextBox or a Combobox, and would like to retrieve the value I have just entered. I see that Selenium Weblement method getText() doesn't retrieve the value, it seems the entered text doesn't get pushed into DOM.

Any solutions?

score 60 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 05 '17 at 09:45

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The getText() method is for retrieving a text node between element tags for example:

<p>Something</p>

getText() will return "Something"

In a textbox typed text goes into the value attribute so you can try something like:

findElement(By.id("someid")).getAttribute("value");

ComboBox is a bit different. But if you're using the Select object you can use the method:

Select selectItem = new Select(findElement(By.id("someid")));
selectItem.getFirstSelectedOption().getText();

edited Jul 05 '17 at 09:45

Michael

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answered Dec 21 '12 at 13:05

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Thanks bob, it works as expected. Why using Firebug the entered text is not getting updated in the value attribute ? – Fazy Dec 22 '12 at 09:06
Just to be clear, it has be to getAttribute("value"), lower case. Not "Value". Which is what i got wrong. – TK Tang Sep 05 '19 at 02:32

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 07 '14 at 09:43

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Try getValue if it is a Text Field or Dropdown box

String lastname=selenium.getValue("//*[@id='lastName']");
System.out.println(lastname);

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answered Jan 03 '13 at 10:38

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I do not see that function, do you have documentation on it? – mlhDev Oct 17 '19 at 18:10

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 19 '21 at 07:56

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This is how we can fetch the text written in a textbox using Selenium + Python:

text = driver.find_element_by_xpath("Type_Xpath_Here").get_attribute('value')
print(text)

answered Jan 19 '21 at 07:56

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How to get entered text from a textbox in Selenium

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