Get text of radio button

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ankit yadav

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Jan 24, 2016, 1:15:56 PM1/24/16
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Hi,

I am using a pretty simple html:

<html>
<body>
<input type="radio" name="color" value="red" checked="checked">Red</input></br>
<input type="radio" name="color" value="green"/>Green</br>
<input type="radio" name="color" value="blue"/>Blue
</body>
</html>

I am trying to get the text of a radio button. I have already tried getText() option but it doesn't work for input type radio button. Can someone please help.

I am using JAVA with chrome driver.

Thanks in advance.

Xiang Dong

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Jan 25, 2016, 1:05:35 AM1/25/16
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String js = "return arguments[0].nextSibling.innerHTML";
pageData = (String)jsExecutor.executeScript(js, webElement);

it will retrieve the text  from radio.

Best Regards,
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Ankit Yadav

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Jan 25, 2016, 1:34:53 AM1/25/16
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Thanks David.  
But i want to use JAVA only. Is there a way in JAVA?

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Xiang Dong

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Jan 25, 2016, 2:37:14 AM1/25/16
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I think the getText() method does not works, return innerHTML also does not works.  I have no idea do we have direct WebDriver API to do it.

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:04:37 +0530
Subject: Re: [selenium-users] Get text of radio button
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Anand Somani

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Jan 25, 2016, 2:41:49 AM1/25/16
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Please paste ur code which is not working... it will better to know.

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Xiang Dong

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Jan 25, 2016, 2:54:15 AM1/25/16
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BTW, my code paste below is a java code. 

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Anand Somani

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Jan 25, 2016, 3:21:59 AM1/25/16
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Try with below xpath 

//input[@value='red']

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Ankit Yadav

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Jan 25, 2016, 3:59:50 AM1/25/16
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Below is the code:

List<WebElement> radioBtns = driver.findElements(By.name("color"));
for(WebElement radioBtn:radioBtns){
if(radioBtn.isSelected()){
System.out.println(radioBtn.getText());
}
}


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Mark Collin

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Jan 25, 2016, 5:53:04 AM1/25/16
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You have some invalid markup there.  an <input> element should not have a closing tag.  The text you have between the opening tag and the closing tag is not really related to the <input element> it's just random text. See here for more info:


The text associated with an input element will be placed in the value attribute.  To get at it you would need to do this:

WebElement myRadioButton = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input:nth-child(1)"))
String radioButtonText = myRadioButton.getAttribute("value");

ankit yadav

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Jan 27, 2016, 7:52:43 AM1/27/16
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Hi Mark,

In my code there was no input closing tag, i was trying something so pasted it wrong. Your code gives the attribute value not the radio button text value.

Thanks,
Ankit.

Travis

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Jan 27, 2016, 10:18:42 PM1/27/16
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If the HTML you posted initially isn't the actual HTML you're working with, it would help immensely for you to re-post with the actual HTML.  If what you posted is in fact the HTML you're working with, then your problem is almost certainly that it's invalid, e.g. the </input> tag and the <input ... /> tag.

Travis
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