get text from textarea tag

Question

I have textarea as <textarea placeholder="Enter text" style="resize: none;"></textarea>

The textarea has some text. But it's not displayed between tags. How can I get it.

e.g. driver.find_element_by_css_selector('textarea[placeholder=""Enter text"]').text

Possible duplicate of [How to get text area content using selenium web driver](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23005059/how-to-get-text-area-content-using-selenium-web-driver) — JeffC, Mar 21 '19 at 21:06

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 21 '19 at 21:06

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Try to get value attribute:

value = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('textarea[placeholder=""Enter text"]').get_attribute("value")

answered Mar 21 '19 at 21:06

Sers

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 21 '19 at 21:43

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You might be dealing angular code, so you'll want to get the value attribute instead:

element = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('textarea[placeholder=""Enter text"]')

text = element.get_attribute(“value”)

answered Mar 21 '19 at 21:43

RKelley

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 21 '19 at 20:51

I can only know for sure if this will work for you if I see your page HTML, but the following xpath should find any textarea element with placeholder of "Enter text":

"//textarea[@placeholder = 'Enter text']"

so your line of code would be

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//textarea[@placeholder = 'Enter text']").text

get text from textarea tag

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