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Rahul N
Rahul N

Reputation: 113

How to get the text from the HTML5 input field error message in Selenium?

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  1. On giving invalid data in the email field it prompts for an HTML 5 alert message.
  2. Firebug doesn't allow to inspect this error message (Please enter an email address) in two cases:

a. While inspecting with Firebug it is getting disappeared.

b. Right click on top of the error message doesn't work to inspect the element in DOM structure.

Upvotes: 9

Views: 7446

Answers (4)

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193188

The HTML5 input field error message is actually the HTML5 Constraint validation message which is the outcome of Constraint API's element.setCustomValidity() method.

To retrieve the text Please enter an email address. you can use either of the locator strategies:

  • Using Java and cssSelector:

    WebElement emailField = driver.findElement(By.name("email"));
System.out.println(emailField.getAttribute("validationMessage"));

  • Using Python and xpath:

    emailField = driver.find_element(By.NAME, "email")
print(emailField.get_attribute("validationMessage"))

References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussion in:

Upvotes: 0

Amol Bande
Amol Bande

Reputation: 1

You get all html5 required field validation in this way.

String errorMessage = driver.findElement(By.id("email")).getAttribute("validationMessage");

Upvotes: 0

Vlad Lehelt
Vlad Lehelt

Reputation: 47

In Python:

self.browser.get(self.live_server_url + registration_path)
email_input = self.browser.find_element_by_id('id_email_input')
validation_message = email_input.get_attribute("validationMessage");

http://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/api.html#module-selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement

Upvotes: 3

Florent B.
Florent B.

Reputation: 42528

The Selenium API doesn't support directly a required field. However, you can easily get the state and the message with a piece of JavaScript (Java):

JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;

WebElement field = driver.findElement(By.name("email"));
Boolean is_valid = (Boolean)js.executeScript("return arguments[0].checkValidity();", field);
String message = (String)js.executeScript("return arguments[0].validationMessage;", field);

Note that it's also possible to use getAttribute to get the validationMessage even though it's a property:

String message = driver.findElement(By.name("email")).getAttribute("validationMessage");

Upvotes: 15

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