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megan
megan

Reputation: 315

Extracting a value from webpage element with selenium, fiebug, xpaths

I am trying to extract a value displayed in an element(drop down box) on a webpage using xpaths. I have firebug and xpath checker installed in firefox and the element I am trying to extract from looks like such:

<input id="dateTxt" class="textBox" value="Thursday June 20" onfocus="this.blur()"   onclick="gird.show('date')" size="9" maxlength="50" readonly="readonly">

Apologies I am not allowed to share exactly what I'm working with but that is the jist.

I want to save the ontents of value ( value = "Thursday June 20" ) to a string so I can parse for the date. But I have not been able to get the xpath correct. This is what I have so far as in my code

text = @driver.find_element(:xpath => "//*[@id=\"dateTxt\"]")

If I perform .text on this nothing is assigned to text.

If more information is needed please request it, this is my first day working with xpaths.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1695

Answers (1)

Arup Rakshit
Arup Rakshit

Reputation: 118271

Humm.. You can try the below :

@driver.find_element(:css,"input#dateTxt").attribute("value")
#=> "Thursday June 20"

@driver.find_element(:xpath,"//input[@id = 'dateTxt']").attribute("value")
#=> "Thursday June 20"

Look at the below page Element examples: and Selenium::WebDriver::Element#attribute

Upvotes: 2

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