In this example I will tell you how you can use selenium command getText in Selenium 2 Webdriver. I had to use this as selenium.getText() was not working on Webdriver when I was using HtmlUnitDriver. It was working when I was using FirefoxDriver. I had to convert the selenium.getText() to make it work on both HtmlUnitDriver and FirefoxDriver.
Here is the HTML code I that I want to check:
The code for getText in Selenium RC is as under:
selenium.getText(“div[@id='logo']“);
This will return Selenium Wiki
The same code for getText in HtmlUnitDriver and FirefoxDriver is as under:
driver.findElement(By.xpath(“div[@id='logo']“)).getText()
This will return Selenium Wiki
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Hey. nice article. However, getText() does not return the value of the field. The getValue of seleniumBackedWebDriver works although. not sure why.
// The below code does not return the value of TextArea
element = webDriver.findElement(By.xpath(RestAPI.TXTAREA_RESPONSE));
String value = element.getText();
// This statement works without any surprises.
getNodeResponse = seleniumBackedWebDriver.getValue(RestAPI.TXTAREA_RESPONSE);
Hi,
If you want to get the value of an element you should use GetCssValue. Check this article: http://www.seleniumwiki.com/webdriver/using-selenium-getvalue-in-webdriver/
Hi, i can not switch in iframe because of there is not any name or id of the iframe, so how can i switch in that iframe. and after switching into that frame i have to enter text.
this problem only rise in HtmlUnitDriver. other browser work nice.
String st = driver.findElement(By.xpath(“//*[@id='ctl00_mainContentPlaceHolder_txtSecurityCode']“)).getAttribute(“value”);
System.out.println(st);
This will work.