Using Selenium WebDriver to retrieve the value of an HTML input

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Try element.getAttribute("value")

The text property is for text within the tags of an element. For input elements, the displayed text is not wrapped by the <input> tag, instead it’s inside the value attribute.

Note: Case matters. If you specify “Value”, you’ll get a ‘null’ value back. This is true for C# at least.

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