What is the difference between getText and getAttribute in Selenium WebDriver

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Both are used to get the WebElement value in between tags  Is my assumption right  If wrong  please elaborate

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getAttribute   - gt  It fetches the text that contains one of any attribute in the HTML tag  Suppose there is an HTML tag like  lt input name  quot Name Locator quot  value  quot selenium quot  gt Hello lt  input gt   Now getAttribute   fetches the data of the attribute of  value   which is  quot Selenium quot   Returns  The attribute s current value or null if the value is not set  driver findElement By name  quot Name Locator quot    getAttribute  quot value quot        The field value is retrieved by the getAttribute  quot value quot   Selenium WebDriver predefined method and assigned to the String object  getText   - gt  delivers the innerText of a WebElement  Get the visible  i e  not hidden by CSS  innerText of this element  including sub-elements  without any leading or trailing whitespace  Returns  The innerText of this element  driver findElement By name  quot Name Locator quot    getText      Hello  will appear

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getText    Get the visible  i e  not hidden by CSS  innerText of this   element  including sub-elements  without any leading or trailing   whitespace       getAttribute String attrName   Get the value of a the given attribute of the element    Will return the current value  even if this has been modified after   the page has been loaded  More exactly  this method will return the   value of the given attribute  unless that attribute is not present  in   which case the value of the property with the same name is returned    for example for the  value  property of a textarea element   If   neither value is set  null is returned  The  style  attribute is   converted as best can be to a text representation with a trailing   semi-colon  The following are deemed to be  boolean  attributes  and   will return either  true  or null  async  autofocus  autoplay    checked  compact  complete  controls  declare  defaultchecked    defaultselected  defer  disabled  draggable  ended  formnovalidate    hidden  indeterminate  iscontenteditable  ismap  itemscope  loop    multiple  muted  nohref  noresize  noshade  novalidate  nowrap  open    paused  pubdate  readonly  required  reversed  scoped  seamless    seeking  selected  spellcheck  truespeed  willvalidate Finally  the   following commonly mis-capitalized attribute property names are   evaluated as expected    class    readonly    getText   return the visible text of the element   getAttribute String attrName  returns the value of the attribute passed as parameter

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lt input attr1  a  attr2  b  attr3  c  gt foo lt  input gt    getAttribute attr1  you get  a   getAttribute attr2  you get  b   getAttribute attr3  you get  c   getText   with no parameter  you can only get  foo

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lt img src  w3schools jpg  alt  W3Schools com  width  104  height  142  gt    In above html tag we have different attributes like src  alt  width and height   If you want to get the any attribute value from above html tag you have to pass attribute value in getAttribute   method  Syntax    getAttribute attributeValue  getAttribute src  you get w3schools jpg getAttribute height  you get 142 getAttribute width  you get 104

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