How to get a textbox value using selenium webdriver & Java?

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1) I have entered name in "Full Name" text box field.

 WebElement name = driver.findElement(By.id("userId"));
        name.sendKeys("Sekhar");

it has entered value in the textbox.

2) I have to validate that "Sekhar" is presented in the textbox. but here the problem is the value entered in the textbox is displaying in watermark logger.info(name.getText()); does not returning a value

because it is displayed in watermark in the textbox.

please help me how to get a watermark text in textbox.

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-11 07:19:43Z

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It would depend on what do you mean by watermark and what is the HTML representation of the input element. But, this should be either a value attribute:

name.getAttribute('value');

or could be a placeholder:

name.getAttribute('placeholder');

answered Mar 11, 2015 at 7:19

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Floern · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-02 13:13:03Z

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JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
js.executeScript("document.getElementById('xxxx').style.display='block';");

edited Feb 2, 2017 at 13:13

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