GetAttribute in Selenium VBA for style

Question

I am working on selenium in VBA and I have stored a variable"post" to store all the occurrences of a specific element like that

Dim post As Object

Set post = .FindElementsByCss("#DetailSection1")
Dim i As Long
For i = 1 To post.Count
    Debug.Print post.Item(i).getAttribute("style")
Next i

I need to extract the style value from the elements

<div id="DetailSection1" style="z-index:3;clip:rect(0px,746px,32px,0px);top:228px;left:0px;width:746px;height:32px;">
</div>

Also I need to print in the immediate window the innerHTML and when I used getAttribute("innerHTML"), it doesn't work for me Any ideas

Shouldn't you use getting the element by Id instead of getting it by CSS? — Tomasz Paluch, Jun 12 '20 at 08:37
I can't remember but isn't Selenium basic method Attribute("") rather than getAttribute? getAttribute is for a node within nodeList rather than webElement. IIRC but confirmation would be good. — QHarr, Jun 12 '20 at 16:02
Thank you very much for the awesome hint. That worked for me `Debug.Print .FindElementByCss("#DetailSection1").Attribute("outerHTML")` — YasserKhalil, Jun 12 '20 at 21:09

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-12T12:55:30.293

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getAttribute("style") should work but you have to induce a waiter for the element to be present/visible within the HTML DOM.

Debug.Print post.Item(i).getAttribute("style")

Precisely, to extract value of the style attributes from the elements you can use the getCssValue() method as follows:

Debug.Print post.Item(i).getCssValue("z-index")
Debug.Print post.Item(i).getCssValue("top")
Debug.Print post.Item(i).getCssValue("left")
Debug.Print post.Item(i).getCssValue("width")
Debug.Print post.Item(i).getCssValue("height")

`getAttribute("innerHTML")`

get_attribute("innerHTML") can be used to read the innerHTML or the text within any node / WebElement

You can find a detailed discussion in Difference between text and innerHTML using Selenium

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edited Jun 12 '20 at 12:55

answered Jun 12 '20 at 11:29

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Thanks a lot. This throws an error. And also what about `innerHTML `? – YasserKhalil Jun 12 '20 at 11:53
@YasserKhalil Checkout the answer update and let me know if any questions. – undetected Selenium Jun 12 '20 at 12:00
I used `get_attribute("innerHTML")` and also `getAttribute("innerHTML")` and both throws an error. I don't know what's wrong? – YasserKhalil Jun 12 '20 at 12:01
Can you have a look at the HTML, please? https://pastebin.com/nu0dLvch – YasserKhalil Jun 12 '20 at 12:03
@YasserKhalil Updated the answer. As the elements are react elements, you need to induce some wait for the element to be present/visible before extracting the style. – undetected Selenium Jun 12 '20 at 12:13
`Object doesn't support this property or method`, this is what I got my friend. – YasserKhalil Jun 12 '20 at 12:45
This worked for me `Debug.Print .FindElementsByCss("#DetailSection1")(1).CssValue("top")`. I am working on VBA and I think there is difference between python and VBA in that. How can I get printed the innerhtml? I can't get that work. – YasserKhalil Jun 12 '20 at 12:48
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@YasserKhalil Hmm, I don't have a VBA env setup but I know the VBA codebase which I have linked for your reference. Glad you got it working. – undetected Selenium Jun 12 '20 at 12:52
Thank you very much. The last point: How can I get printed the innerhtml? I can't get that work – YasserKhalil Jun 12 '20 at 12:53
@YasserKhalil The element for which you have provided the html don't have a any `innerHTML` or _text_. So in this case it will always return a _blank_ – undetected Selenium Jun 12 '20 at 12:56
So is there a way to print the HTML part for that element? – YasserKhalil Jun 12 '20 at 12:57
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@YasserKhalil Possibly you are looking for `getAttribute("outerHTML")` – undetected Selenium Jun 12 '20 at 12:58
Can you try that on your side? neither `innerHTML` or `outerHTML` works!! – YasserKhalil Jun 12 '20 at 13:01
@YasserKhalil Going by [`getAttribute(string attributeName)`](https://github.com/danwagnerco/selenium-vba/blob/master/wrapper/WebElement.cs#L110) possibly you simply need **`Text`** – undetected Selenium Jun 12 '20 at 13:05

GetAttribute in Selenium VBA for style

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`getAttribute("innerHTML")`

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