Day: 3 January 2022

In Selenium webdriver, we can use the getAttribute() method to get the value of an attribute. The attribute and its value appear as a key-value pair in HTML code.

Disabled, alt, id, href, style, title, and src are among the most well-known html properties. The value of the attribute we wish to get is supplied to the method as an argument.

Let’s have a look at how to collect attributes for an input field. The HTML for the input tag is shown below.

<input name="textField" class="textClass" type="text" aria-label="Input field" placeholder="Enter your name" id="name" label='Enter your name' />

With the code below, we can get the name, class and ID of the input Field.

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class GetAttributes {

    public WebDriver driver;
    private By byInputField = By.name("textField");
                            
    @BeforeClass
    public void setUp() {
        driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        driver.get("https://testup.io");
    }

    @Test
    public void getAttribute_TextFieldName() {
        WebElement inputTextField = driver.findElement(byInputField);
        System.out.println("Name of the input field is:- " +inputTextField.getAttribute("name"));
    }

    @Test
    public void getAttribute_Id() {
        WebElement inputTextField = driver.findElement(byInputField);
        System.out.println("Id of the input field is:- "+ inputTextField.getAttribute("id"));
    }

    @Test
    public void getAttribute_class() {

        WebElement inputTextField = driver.findElement(byInputField);
        System.out.println("Class of the Input Field is:- "+ inputTextField.getAttribute("class"));

    }

    @Test
    public void getAttribute_InvalidAttribute() {

        WebElement inputTextField = driver.findElement(byInputField);
        //Will return null value as the 'status' attribute doesn't exists
        System.out.println("Invalid Attribute status of the input field is:- "+ inputTextField.getAttribute("status"));
    }
    
    @Test
    public void getAttribute_TextFieldLabel() {

        WebElement inputTextField = driver.findElement(byInputField);
        System.out.println("Label of the input field is:- "+ inputTextField.getAttribute("aria-label"));
    }

    @AfterClass
    public void tearDown() {
        driver.quit();
    }
}

Output

Label of the button is: Enter your name
Name of the button is: textField
Id of the button is: name
Invalid Attribute status of the button is: null
Class of the button is: textClass
PASSED: getAttribute_inputTextFieldLabel
PASSED: getAttribute_inputTextFiedlName
PASSED: getAttribute_Id
PASSED: getAttribute_InvalidAttribute
PASSED: getAttribute_class