How to get entered text from a textbox in selenium

Question

I enter a value in TextBox or a Combobox, and would like to retrieve the value I have just entered. I see that Selenium Weblement method \'getText()\' doesnt retrieve the value,

Answer 1

Try getValue if it is a Text Field or Dropdown box

String lastname=selenium.getValue("//*[@id='lastName']");
System.out.println(lastname);

Answer 2

The getText() method is for retrieving a text node between element tags for example:

<p>Something</p>

getText() will return "Something"

In a textbox typed text goes into the value attribute so you can try something like:

findElement(By.id("someid")).getAttribute("value");

ComboBox is a bit different. But if you're using the Select object you can use the method:

Select selectItem = new Select(findElement(By.id("someid")));
selectItem.getFirstSelectedOption().getText();

Answer 3

This is how we can fetch the text written in a textbox using Selenium + Python:

text = driver.find_element_by_xpath("Type_Xpath_Here").get_attribute('value')
print(text)