Using Selenium Web Driver to retrieve value of a HTML input
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.
You can do like this :
webelement time=driver.findElement(By.id("input_name")).getAttribute("value");this will give you the time displaying on the webpage.
With selenium 2,
i usually write it like that :
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("input_name"));String elementval = element.getAttribute("value");OR
String elementval = driver.findElement(By.id("input_name")).getAttribute("value");