How to get entered text from a textbox in Selenium

Question

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();