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Kahing Lam
Kahing Lam

Reputation: 1

How to retrieve the HTML of an element through SeleniumWebdriver?

I'm trying to text Selenium Webdriver on Mac. I was trying to have it automatically fill the search blank of Google and search. The html for the search box is following:

<input class="gLFyf" maxlength="2048" name="q" type="text" jsaction="paste:puy29d" aria-autocomplete="both" aria-haspopup="false" autocapitalize="off" autocomplete="off" autocorrect="off" role="combobox" spellcheck="false" title="Search" value="" aria-label="Search">

So, I wanted to test if I can single out the above element, which corresponds to the search box. So I had it print the following to see if it did get the element: 

driver.findElements(By.className("gLFyf")).toString

However, instead of printing the actual html of the above, it printed 

[[[ChromeDriver: chrome on MAC (a8470f41df7943e813ac6f77266ed33c)] -> class name: gLFyf]]

Can anyone explain to me why am I not getting the element?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 513

Answers (2)

angrybambr
angrybambr

Reputation: 128

I didn't understand what you want to do? Do you want to check that you've found element you need?

So.. 

Webelement element = driver.findElement...

will throw an exception if element hasn't been found.

You can try to check the count of element found by your locator:

driver.findElements(By.className("gLFyf")).count

This will return 0 if nothing found, You can also compare it with 1 to be sure that there are no any other elements with the same classname.. 

if(driver.findElements(By.className("gLFyf")).count > 1){
     //more than one lement found
}

Upvotes: 0

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193058

As per your question to print the html of the Google Home Page Search Box element you can use the following solution:

  • Code Block:

    import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class findElement_html {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\geckodriver.exe");
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        driver.get("https://www.google.com/");
        WebElement myElement = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
        System.out.println(myElement.getAttribute("outerHTML"));
    }
}

  • Console Output:

    <input class="gsfi lst-d-f" id="lst-ib" maxlength="2048" name="q" autocomplete="off" title="Search" value="" aria-label="Search" aria-haspopup="false" role="combobox" aria-autocomplete="list" style="border: medium none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; height: auto; width: 100%; background: transparent url(&quot;data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAID/AMDAwAAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw%3D%3D&quot;) repeat scroll 0% 0%; position: absolute; z-index: 6; left: 0px; outline: currentcolor none medium;" dir="ltr" spellcheck="false" type="text">

Upvotes: 1

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