How do I get the text from inputs without value attribute with Selenium? The problem is that they are filled automatically (maybe with JavaScript) when the page loads and the text doesn't appear on the html so I can't find anything that represents it.
Using a module called win32clipboard, which is part of pywin32 solved my problem.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import win32clipboard
element.send_keys(Keys.CONTROL, 'a') #highlight all in box
element.send_keys(Keys.CONTROL, 'c') #copy
win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()
text = win32clipboard.GetClipboardData() #paste
win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()
print text
Once the text is in the box, you can access it using WebElement.get_attribute('value') where WebElement is the text box that you want to extract the text from.
You could implement your own expected condition. The following works
html/js:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" >
window.onload = function(){
document.getElementById("string").value = "hello";
};
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input id="string" type="text" value="">
</body>
</html>
python:
import re
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.common.exceptions import StaleElementReferenceException
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
class regex_to_be_present_in_element_value(object):
def __init__(self, locator, regex):
self.locator = locator
self.regex = regex
def __call__(self, driver):
try:
element_text = EC._find_element(driver,
self.locator).get_attribute("value")
if element_text:
return re.match(self.regex, element_text)
else:
return False
except StaleElementReferenceException:
return False
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("file:///path/to/the/htmlfile.html")
try:
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
regex_to_be_present_in_element_value((By.ID, "string"), "he*")
)
finally:
driver.quit()
It simply waits until there is text in the value attribute of the specified element matching the regex generated by the regex string passed to the constructor, in this case simply "hello". "he*" matches "hello".
I used this as a guide in making the class: https://selenium.googlecode.com/git/docs/api/py/_modules/selenium/webdriver/support/expected_conditions.html#text_to_be_present_in_element_value
