In certain situations we need to get data from input field or from textarea. The selenium getText() function is not good to get the data from input filed (<input>) or from textarea (<textarea>). driver.findElement(By.xpath(TEXTAREA.XPATH)).getText() – returns an empty string. The solution is to use getAttribute(“value”). driver.findElement(By.xpath(TEXTAREA.XPATH)).getAttribute(“value”); Similar Posts from the author: How to select an element […]