get_attribute('textContent') and get_attribute('innerText') do not work

[Wenfeng Wang]

Hi, we just upgrade chrome and chromedriver to 91,  we found function get_attribute('textContent') and get_attribute('innerText') do not work, they all reture None, but ele.text works fine.

[Wenfeng Wang]

Maybe it is  "Resolved issue 3746: attribute endpoint incorrectly updates values" that causes this issue.

[John Chen]

textContent and innerText are properties, not attributes. Please use get_property instead.

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[Wenfeng Wang]

Thanks John, I will change them to  get_property and test it, and let you know the result ASAP

[Wenfeng Wang]

After change to  get_property(),   get_property( 'textContent' )  and  get_property( 'innerText' ) work, Thanks John

[Steve Desmond]

It looks like the same is true about `innerHTML` too? We just upgraded to v91 and some of our tests are failing...

[James Pendleton]

I wish they would please fix this, we have hundreds of tests that rely on this

[Mathias Bynens]

innerHTML is also a property, not an attribute. Use get_property.

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[James Pendleton]

I use webdriver.js and there isn't a get_property function I do not think is there?   Besides, this has worked for years and years and years :)

[John Chen]

Latest version of webdriver.js from Selenium does have getProperty method, which should be able to retrieve textContent and innerText properties. If you're using an older version of webdriver.js, you can either upgrade to a newer version, or you can run simple JavaScript snippet in Chrome to retrieve properties, e.g., driver.executeScript('return arguments[0].textContent', element).

I'm sorry for all the inconvenience this change has caused, but the previous behavior of ChromeDriver's getAttribute didn't comply with W3C standard, and was causing problems for users who expect standard-compliant WebDriver implementation.

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