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Stacy Miller
Stacy Miller

Reputation: 11

How to extract text entered in text input using Selenium WebDriver?

I have an HTML element <input id="input-id" type="text" value="initial">.
After loading the page I can get text from this element using, for example, driver.find_element_by_id("input-id").get_attribute("value").

But then I click on this element and change the text inside (to "edited", for example). Nothing in DOM changes, including value of the value attribute
(i.e. driver.find_element_by_id("input-id").get_attribute("value") still returns "initial" and element in DOM looks like <input id="input-id" type="text" value="initial">)

How can I extract value that is now visible in browser (i.e. string "edited")? Do I need to execute some JavaScript or anything?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2092

Answers (1)

5agado
5agado

Reputation: 2454

That value doesn't change when you input some new text. You could try to do just this:

driver.find_element_by_id("input-id").get_attribute("innerHTML")

Upvotes: 3

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