Getting empty value when using "getAttribute()"

Question

I'm trying to get the text "Lior Pelet", but i'm getting empty string

This is the site code:

<div class="crm-entity-stream-content-detail"><span>Lior Pelet</span></div>

And this is my code:

@FindBy(css=".crm-entity-stream-content-detail > span")
public WebElement txtFullName;  //full name 

String sContactName=txtFullName.getAttribute("span");

Possible duplicate of [How to use @FindBy annotation in Selenium for span text?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47860816/how-to-use-findby-annotation-in-selenium-for-span-text) — Ali Ben Zarrouk, Oct 23 '19 at 11:59
there is no attribute called span in your html, why would you assume this to work? — f1sh, Oct 23 '19 at 12:01

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 23 '19 at 11:57

You can fetch by using getText() method instead of using the getAttribute() method.
You can do it like:

@FindBy(css=".crm-entity-stream-content-detail > span")
public WebElement txtFullName;  //full name 

String sContactName=txtFullName.getText();

OR

You can get the desired output by using getAttribute("value") .
You can do it like:

@FindBy(css=".crm-entity-stream-content-detail > span")
public WebElement txtFullName;  //full name 

String sContactName=txtFullName.getAttribute("value");

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 23 '19 at 12:00

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css=".crm-entity-stream-content-detail > span

means your "txtFullName" already is a span element, so call getText() method instead.

answered Oct 23 '19 at 12:00

Aykhan

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