Using Selenium Web Driver to retrieve value of a HTML input

Question

In the HTML of a webapp there is the following code   lt input type  text  name  prettyTime  id  prettyTime  class  ui-state-disabled prettyTime   readonly  readonly  gt    What is actually shown on the page is a string displaying the time   In Selenium Web Driver  I have a WebElement object referring to the  lt input gt  using  WebElement timeStamp   waitForElement By id  prettyTime       I want to get the value of the WebElement  or  in other words  what is printed on the page  I tried all the WebElement getters and nothing has been retrieving the actual value that the user sees  Any help  Thanks

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Following  ragzzy  s answer I use   public static string Value this IWebElement element  IJavaScriptExecutor javaScriptExecutor                 try                       string value   javaScriptExecutor ExecuteScript  return arguments 0  value   element  as string              return value                    catch  Exception                        return null                    It works quite well and does not alter the DOM

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Try element getAttribute  value    The text property is for text within the tags of an element  For input elements  the displayed text is not wrapped by the  lt input gt  tag  instead it s inside the value attribute   Note  Case matters  If you specify  Value   you ll get a  null  value back  This is true for C  at least

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If the input value gets populated by a script that has some latency involved  e g  AJAX call  then you need to wait until the input has been populated  E g   var w   new WebDriverWait WebBrowser  TimeSpan FromSeconds 10                w Until  d    gt                       Wait until the input has a value                     var elements   d FindElements By Name name                     var ele   elements SingleOrDefault                     if  ele    null                                           Found a single element                      if  ele GetAttribute  value                                                           We have a value now                         return true                                                           return false                               var e   WebBrowser Current FindElement By Name name             if  e GetAttribute  value      value                        Assert Fail  Result contains a field named   0    but its value is   1    not   2   as expected   name  e GetAttribute  value    value

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As was mentioned before  you could do something like that  public String getVal WebElement webElement        JavascriptExecutor e    JavascriptExecutor  driver      return  String  e executeScript String format  return      s   val      webElement getAttribute  id          But as you can see  your element must have an id attribute  and also  jquery on your page

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element GetAttribute  value     Eventhough if you don t see the  value  attribute in html dom  you will get the field value displayed on the GUI

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With selenium 2    i usually write it like that    WebElement element   driver findElement By id  input name     String elementval   element getAttribute  value      OR  String elementval   driver findElement By id  input name    getAttribute  value

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This is kind of hacky  but it works   I used JavascriptExecutor and added a div to the HTML  and changed the text in the div to     prettyTime   val   I then used Selenium to retrieve the div and grab its value  After testing the correctness of the value  I removed the div that was just created

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You can do like this    webelement time driver findElement By id  input name    getAttribute  value      this will give you the time displaying on the webpage

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For python bindings it will be    element get attribute  value

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