validate sendKeys(input) of selenium Webdriver after enter

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I am trying to validate an input like following

element.sendKeys(valueToPut);
String readAfterEnter = element.getText();

element.sendKeys(valueToPut) worked properly But readAfterEnter does not give the expected value, it is allways null.

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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The WebElement.getText() method does not return the content of the user input. For this you have to use WebElement.getAttribute("value") (see this thread).

edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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answered Sep 20 '13 at 12:34

LaurentG

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score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 22 '13 at 00:37

This code will work:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("nameOfElement"));
String text = element.getAttribute("value");

The getAttribute method returns the value of an attribute of an HTML Tag; for example if I have an input like this:

<input name = "text" type ="text" value ="Hello">

then this webdriver code:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("text"));
String text = element.getAttribute("value");
System.out.println(text);

will print out 'Hello'.

validate sendKeys(input) of selenium Webdriver after enter

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