How to gettext of an element in Selenium Webdriver

Question

I am finding a textbox by its ID  I need to get the content which is already there inside the text box  For that I am using the gettext   method  but it is returning the ID value  The content in the text box is  Santhosh The output I am getting is     FirefoxDriver  firefox on XP  c0079327-7063-4908-b20a-a606b95830cb   - gt  id  ctl00 ContentPlaceHolder1 txtName  The code is below Code WebElement TxtBoxContent   driver findElement By id WebelementID    TxtBoxContent getText    System out println  quot Printing  quot    TxtBoxContent    Result Printing   FirefoxDriver  firefox on XP  c0079327-7063-4908-b20a-a606b95830cb   - gt  id  ctl00 ContentPlaceHolder1 txtName

User · Answer

You need to store it in a String variable first before displaying it like so  String Txt   TxtBoxContent getText    System out println Txt

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text   driver findElement By id  p id    getAttribute  innerHTML

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You need to print the result of the getText    You re currently printing the object TxtBoxContent  getText   will only get the inner text of an element   To get the value  you need to use getAttribute    WebElement TxtBoxContent   driver findElement By id WebelementID    System out println  quot Printing  quot    TxtBoxContent getAttribute  quot value quot

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