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Mike ASP
Mike ASP

Reputation: 2333

Text.Length is not working to find length of String for a webElement

value of ​"total" is 0 here in this case : I am not sure why it's not working ?

List<IWebElement> list = new List<IWebElement>(); 
list =  ABCPageObject.AbcTextArea().ToList();

foreach (IWebElement Option in list)
{
    Option.Click();
    Option.Clear();
    Option.SendKeys("ThisisTheasdfdsaOutput1234567890ThisisTheVWXYZer!O@ut#pu$tT%hi^sis&The*Tw(i)t<t>er[O]u{t}p/utT/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTU");
    Thread.Sleep(2000);
}
foreach(IWebElement Option in list)
{
    var total = Option.Text.Length;
    // total is 0 here when we debug 

    if(total == 116)
    {
        Utility.Logger.Write("Add Out");
    }

}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1537

Answers (1)

krokodilko
krokodilko

Reputation: 36107

You need to check a value attributte instead of text().
A value of input and textarea tags are stored in value attributte.

Please see a below simple test that shows that.
Here is a simple test page which contains two fields - input and textarea

<div>
  <textarea id="mytextarea"></textarea>
</div>
<div>
  <input id="myinput" />
</div>

Here is a simple test code (in java):

driver.get("https://jsfiddle.net/f89zxd1w/");
driver.switchTo().frame("result");

driver.findElement(By.id("mytextarea")).sendKeys("Some text");

driver.findElement(By.id("myinput")).sendKeys("Some other text");

WebElement textArea = driver.findElement(By.id("mytextarea"));
String areaText = textArea.getText();
String areaValue = textArea.getAttribute("value");

System.out.format("Area text = %s\n", areaText);
System.out.format("Area value = %s\n", areaValue);

WebElement input = driver.findElement(By.id("myinput"));
String inputText = input.getText();
String inputValue = input.getAttribute("value");

System.out.format("Input text = %s\n", inputText);
System.out.format("Input value = %s\n", inputValue);

And a result is:

Area text = 
Area value = Some text
Input text = 
Input value = Some other text

Upvotes: 3

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