I've been encountering an issue with trying to extract plain text from a WebElement using JavaScript selenium-webdriver. I'm currently using MicrosoftEdge browser and driver, everything is set up properly but I can't work out why trying to get values from WebElement is broken in JavaScript Selenium. For example, suppose the following document:
<html>
<body>
<p>Hello</p>
<a href="" class="myClass">Maps</a>
</body>
</html>
and the subsequent querying (setup ommited for brevity):
browser.get("file:///path/to/index.html");
browser.sleep(1000); //Just to be sure...
var ep = browser.findElement(By.linkText("Maps"));
ep.then(elm => console.log(elm.getText())); //Doesn't work!
ep.then(elm => console.log(elm.getAttribute("innerHtml"))); //Doesn't work!
ep.then(elm => elm.click()); //works
Anything that doesn't directly interact with the element (e.g. sendKeys or click), including calls like isDisplayed() seem to fail and give some exception trace in the console. I'm using selenium-webdrivier 3.3.0 on Windows 10 with nodejs version 6.10.0.
API for convinience.
I've been encountering an issue with trying to extract plain text from a WebElement using JavaScript selenium-webdriver. I'm currently using MicrosoftEdge browser and driver, everything is set up properly but I can't work out why trying to get values from WebElement is broken in JavaScript Selenium. For example, suppose the following document:
<html>
<body>
<p>Hello</p>
<a href="http://bing./maps" class="myClass">Maps</a>
</body>
</html>
and the subsequent querying (setup ommited for brevity):
browser.get("file:///path/to/index.html");
browser.sleep(1000); //Just to be sure...
var ep = browser.findElement(By.linkText("Maps"));
ep.then(elm => console.log(elm.getText())); //Doesn't work!
ep.then(elm => console.log(elm.getAttribute("innerHtml"))); //Doesn't work!
ep.then(elm => elm.click()); //works
Anything that doesn't directly interact with the element (e.g. sendKeys or click), including calls like isDisplayed() seem to fail and give some exception trace in the console. I'm using selenium-webdrivier 3.3.0 on Windows 10 with nodejs version 6.10.0.
API for convinience.
Share Improve this question edited Mar 19, 2017 at 0:41 Sina Madani asked Mar 18, 2017 at 17:33 Sina MadaniSina Madani 1,3343 gold badges15 silver badges29 bronze badges2 Answers
Reset to default 8getText and getAttribute return promises that resolve with the value requested.
elm.getText().then(function (text) {
console.log(text);
});
Working in my aproache:
await teste.driver.findElement({
css: 'input[name="nameElementExample"]'
}).getAttribute("value");