Using Selenium Web Driver to retrieve value of a HTML input

Question

In the HTML of a web app, there is the following code What is actually shown on the page is a string displaying the time. In Selenium Web Driver, I have a WebElement object referring to the using WebElement timeStamp = waitForElement(By.id("prettyTime")); I want to get the value of the WebElement, or, in other words, what is printed on the page. I tried all the WebElement getters and nothing has been retrieving the actual value that the user sees. Any help? Thanks. Select the correct answer from above options

Answer 1

The following code is what I use in Selenium 2.0: WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("input_name")); String elementval = element.getAttribute("value"); OR String elementval = driver.findElement(By.id("input_name")).getAttribute("value"); Hope this was helpful.