How to extract text from tag using Selenium pageobject?

Question

This is the html code:

<div class="post-actions__body" style="display: block;">
  <span class="title">Reply from:</span>

<input class="account-input" value="" disabled="">

<textarea class="reply-text-area"></textarea>

<a class="btn-post-message btn--inactive" href="#">Post</a>

<!--<span class="character-count">63206</span>--></div>

I’m trying to extract text from the input tag: input class="account-input" value="" disabled="", the text (“account one”) is visible on the GUI.

This is how I define the pageobject:

div(:reply_account, :css => '.post-actions__body .account-input')

I’ve tried using reply_account_element.getText(), .getValue(), .getAttribute(), but none of them work. Please advise, thanks!

None of that HTML has "account one" in it. If its not in the HTML, then you can't extract it. — Nathan Merrill, Nov 11 '13 at 20:53
Yes, I know, that's the problem. So there is no way that I can extract it? — chen layton, Nov 11 '13 at 21:06
No...but assuming that its normal text, I'm guessing its somewhere in the HTML. do a driver.getPageSource(), and then search that text for "account one". — Nathan Merrill, Nov 11 '13 at 21:10
As it turns out, there is an error on the html code. I’m able to see "account one". Thanks everyone for his or her input! — chen layton, Nov 13 '13 at 20:41

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 30 '14 at 17:55

Have you tried:

text(:reply_account, :class => 'account-input')

reply_account = 'some value'
puts reply_account #should print 'some value'

Honestly I would suggest asking for an ID for the tag if possible but that is more of a personal best practices sort of thing.

How to extract text from tag using Selenium pageobject?

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