validate sendKeys(input) of selenium Webdriver after enter

Question

I am trying to validate an input like following

element.sendKeys(valueToPut);
String readAfterEnter = element.getText();

element.sendKeys(valueToPut) worked properly But readAfterEnter does not give the expected value, it is allways null.

Answer 1

The WebElement.getText() method does not return the content of the user input. For this you have to use WebElement.getAttribute("value") (see this thread).

Answer 2

This code will work:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("nameOfElement"));
String text = element.getAttribute("value");

The getAttribute method returns the value of an attribute of an HTML Tag; for example if I have an input like this:

<input name = "text" type ="text" value ="Hello">

then this webdriver code:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("text"));
String text = element.getAttribute("value");
System.out.println(text);

will print out 'Hello'.