WebDriver: Any way to get the HTML from a WebElement?

[laredotornado]

Hi,

I'm using Selenium 2.12 and trying to interact with the WebDriver api
in my JUnit test. Is there any way, once I get a WebElement, that I
can figure out what HTML the WebElement contains? That would be
massively useful.

Massive thanks in advance, - Dave

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

WebElement.getTagName()

WebElement.getAttribute(String attribName);

WebElement.getText();

These methods can be used to get some information about a WebElement.

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

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[Luke Inman-Semerau]

Dave,

You can always use the JavascriptExecutor to do a lot of things with it too (like get the innerHTML):

String html = (String)((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("return arguments[0].innerHTML;", element);

-Luke

[laredotornado]

Thanks, Luke! I really like the slick one liner, - Dave

On Nov 30, 10:39 am, Luke Inman-Semerau <luke.seme...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dave,
>
> You can always use the JavascriptExecutor to do a lot of things with it too
> (like get the innerHTML):
>
> String html = (String)((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("return
> arguments[0].innerHTML;", element);
>
> -Luke
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Krishnan Mahadevan <
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> krishnan.mahadevan1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > WebElement.getTagName()
> > WebElement.getAttribute(String attribName);
> > WebElement.getText();
>
> > These methods can be used to get some information about a WebElement.
>
> > Thanks & Regards
> > Krishnan Mahadevan
>
> > "All the desirable things in life are either illegal, expensive, fattening
> > or in love with someone else!"
>