CODEWITHSUNDEEP
c#selenium
user12625850
user12625850

Reputation:

How do I get input element id from placeholder text?

I'm using Selenium and C#.

I'm trying to find an element id for an input field by the already typed in text (the elements id is autogenerated randomly for every instance) and then type a new text.

My failed attempt:

public void SetValues(){
        var textField = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[contains(text(),'my_text')]"));
        ((IJavaScriptExecutor)driver)
            .ExecuteScript("window.scroll(" + textField.Location.X + "," + (textField.Location.Y - 200) + ");");
        textField.sendKeys("some_text");
              }

How can I make my code to work?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 742

Answers (1)

Mesut GUNES
Mesut GUNES

Reputation: 7401

Place holder is an html attribute so you can use @placeholder, check the following line:

var textField = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[@placeholder='my_placeholder']"));

Edited: There is no way to get the text entered manually if javascript assigns the value to an attribute.

Upvotes: 2

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