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Selenium Essentials

You're reading from   Selenium Essentials Get to grips with automated web testing with the amazing power of Selenium WebDriver

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784394332
Length 194 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prashanth Sams Prashanth Sams
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WebElement functions


WebElement is an HTML element that helps the users to drive automation tests. Selenium WebDriver provides well-organized web page interactions through WebElements, such as locating elements, getting attribute properties, asserting text present in WebElement, and more. However, to interact with hidden elements in a web page, it is necessary to unhide the hidden elements first. Let's discuss Selenium WebElement functions further:

  • getText(): This function delivers the innerText attribute of WebElement. The following is the syntax for this function:

    driver.findElement(By.locatorType("path")).getText();

    The following is an example on the Google page that returns the innerText attribute of a Google search button using the getText() function:

    driver.get("https://www.google.com");
    System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.id("_eEe")).getText());

    JavaScriptExecutor is a Selenium interface to execute JavaScripts that returns the innerText attribute of a hidden element. It is important...

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