Getting Title value with Webdriver

[gbh]

Hi,

I've got the following piece of html:

<span title="This is a really really really really long tag to test
out tooltips!!" class="value">This is a really really really really
long tag to test…</span>

where I'm trying to get the value of the title attribute. I'm using
the following code:

String tagTooltip = Global.objBrowser.findElement(By.xpath("//
div[@id='fileInfoAttrs']/p[6]/span[@title]")).getText();

but this is returning the text of the <span> element.
Any ideas on how I can do this??

Thanks,

gbh

[Bill Smith]

Have you tried this:

String tagTooltip = Global.objBrowser.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='fileInfoAttrs']/p[6]/span/@title")).getText(); 

[gbh]

Thanks but it doesn't like it, getting error...

Element is no longer attached to the DOM System info: os.name:
'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', java.version:
'1.6.0_23' Driver info: driver.version: remote

[Bill Smith]

Ok, I guess findElement really wants to retrieve an element and not an attribute.  How about this:

String tagTooltip = Global.objBrowser.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='fileInfoAttrs']/p[6]/span[@title]")).getAttribute("title");

If that works, then might try simplifying like this:

String tagTooltip = Global.objBrowser.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='fileInfoAttrs']/p[6]/span")).getAttribute("title");

[Bill Smith]

That was weird.  Let me try that again.  If the first thing works, you might try simplifying like this:

String tagTooltip = Global.objBrowser.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='fileInfoAttrs']/p[6]/span")).getAttribute("title");

 

On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 10:41:19 AM UTC-5, Bill Smith wrote:

Ok, I guess findElement really wants to retrieve an element and not an attribute.  How about this:

String tagTooltip = Global.objBrowser.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='fileInfoAttrs']/p[6]/span[@title]")).getAttribute("title");

If that works, then might try simplifying like this:

String tagTooltip = Global.objBrowser.findE...@id='fileInfoAttrs']/p[6]/span")).getAttribute("title");

[gbh]

Thanks for that Bill, worked perfectly
(Global.objBrowser.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='fileInfoAttrs']/
p[6]/span[@title]")).getAttribute("title"); ).

The simplified version returned null though.
But I'm good with the first option.

[Mark Collin]

Use getAttribute() instead of getText()

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Sent: 23 March 2011 14:47
To: Selenium Users
Subject: [selenium-users] Getting Title value with Webdriver

Hi,

I've got the following piece of html:

<span title="This is a really really really really long tag to test out
tooltips!!" class="value">This is a really really really really long tag to

test.</span>

where I'm trying to get the value of the title attribute. I'm using the
following code:

String tagTooltip = Global.objBrowser.findElement(By.xpath("//
div[@id='fileInfoAttrs']/p[6]/span[@title]")).getText();

but this is returning the text of the <span> element.
Any ideas on how I can do this??

Thanks,

gbh

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