Selenium - Store hidden variable

Question

We are using Junit + Selenium to webtest our webpage. But we have run into a problem.

I need to parse the value from a hidden field with Selenium.
HTML of hidden field
<input type="hidden" name="secretId" value="123456"/>
I use the following XPath
//input[@name='secretId']/@value

I need to scrape that hidden variable and store it using a XPath and use it further on down the script.

How do I do this with Selenium?

I have tried

String secretId = selenium.getText("//input[@name='secretId']/@value");
Returns empty string

String secretId = selenium.getEval("//input[@name='secretId']/@value");
Returns null

The XPath is correct, I have verified this with XPath Checker in Firefox

Thanks?

Jonas Söderström · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-23 12:22:34Z

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Found the answer
String secretId = selenium.getValue("//input[@name='secretId']");

answered Feb 23, 2010 at 12:22

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Ripon Al Wasim Over a year ago

How can I get the value by using WebDriver?

glarrain Over a year ago

I don't know about Java, but this works in Python and might as well i Java: driver.find_element_by_name('something').value = 'some string'

Ripon Al Wasim · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-21 09:43:28Z

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I have got the answer to get the value by using WebDriver:

String secretId = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='secretId']")).getText();

answered Jun 21, 2012 at 9:43

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