Selenium Webdriver Python How to get text from the input tag

Question

I am trying to get the value of a textfield. The textfield is in an Input tag in the html. I want to print out it's value. I am getting nothing printed out to the console. I have identified the element with the following XPATH

By.XPATH, '//span[@class="gwt-InlineLabel marginbelow myinlineblock" and contains(text(), "Type")]/following-sibling::*'

My code snippet is

 def get_type_field_value(self):
        type_field_element = self.driver.find_element(By.XPATH, 'By.XPATH, '//span[@class="gwt-InlineLabel marginbelow myinlineblock" and contains(text(), "Type")]/following-sibling::*'')
        print type_field_element.text

The HTML is:

<div class="clear">
    <span class="gwt-InlineLabel marginbelow myinlineblock" style="width: 8em;">Type</span>
    <input class="gwt-TextBox marginbelow" type="text" disabled="" style="display: inline;"/>
 </div>

I have also tried the following method:

def get_type_field_value2(self):
    return self.driver.execute_script("""
        return jQuery(arguments[0]).contents().filter(function() {
        return this.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE;
        }).text();
        """, self.driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//span[@class="gwt-InlineLabel marginbelow myinlineblock" and contains(text(), "Type")]/following-sibling::*'))

I get a JavaScript error:

raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
WebDriverException: Message: JavaScript error

How do i get the value of the Textfield?

Thanks,

So i cannot use.Text then. How do i get the value then. Ah i could use .value. Value is for input tags. I will try that. — Riaz Ladhani
– Riaz Ladhani, Commented Sep 17, 2015 at 13:09

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-17 13:34:04Z

3

Since value is simply an html attribute, you can get the attribute value using -

print type_field_element.get_attribute('value')

edited Sep 17, 2015 at 13:34

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