WebElement interface methods examples in selenium - part 1 | Understanding of methods getText(), sendKeys(), clear(), getAttribute() and click() for radio button and check box

• getText() method gets you the visible text or inner text of an element. 
• That is it fetches text between the opening and closing tags. 
• For instance, the following text between bold tags can be fetched using getText() method.
  

  <b xpath="1">This is sample text.</b>

• Store the locator in a Weblement variable and then use getText()
  

  //getText() example --> locate text "This is sample text." on page and display the text
  
  WebElement ThisIsSimpleText = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//b[contains(text(),'This is sample text.')]"));
  
  String displayThisIsSimpleText = ThisIsSimpleText.getText();
  
  System.out.println(displayThisIsSimpleText);

• This method allows users to enter data into editable elements such as text boxes or search boxes.
• For instance, first name is a text box input and using sendKeys() method enter input value
  

  <input id="fname" type="text" name="firstName" xpath="1">

• Code snippet
  

  //sendKeys("sadakar") example --> locate TextBox input and enter first name
  
  WebElement firstName = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id=fname]"));
  
  firstName.sendKeys("Sadakar");
  
  

• clear() method clears any text already entered or displayed in text box or search box inputs. 
• Some applications may use default values in editable forms so clear them before entering new.
• For instance, clear the already existing text in "first name" text box and enter new value
  

  //clear() --> clear TextBox input and re-enter first name
  
  firstName.clear();
  
  firstName.sendKeys("Hasini");
  
  

• getAttribute() method returns the current value of a given attribute as a string.
  

  <input id="fname" type="text" name="firstName" xpath="1">
  
  

• id, type, name , xpath and vlaue(not given above statement) are attributes of first name element HTML 
• For instance, the following snippet for firstname text field fetches the value displayed on the form then the values of the corresponding attributes
  

  //getAttribute("<attribute>") --> <input id="fname" type="text" name="firstName">
  
  firstName.getAttribute("value");
  
  System.out.println("<input id=\"fname\" type=\"text\" name=\"firstName\">");
  
  System.out.println("Value of value attribute="+firstName.getAttribute("value"));
  
  System.out.println("Value of id attribute="+firstName.getAttribute("id"));
  
  System.out.println("Value of type attribute="+firstName.getAttribute("type"));
  
  System.out.println("Value of name attribute="+firstName.getAttribute("name"));
  
  

• Toggling(select or deselect) on/off are the actions performed for radio buttons or check boxes. 
• Using click() method toggling can be done. 
• For instance, take a look at the following code snippet - "male" radio button and check boxes for testings labels are selected.
  

  //radio button click example --> locate "male" radio button and select it
  
  WebElement male = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id=male]"));
  
  male.click();
  
    
  
  //check box click example - locate "Automation Testing" check box and tick it
  
  WebElement automationTesting = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@class=Automation]"));
  
  automationTesting.click();
  
  
  
  //check box click example - locate "Performance Testing" check box and tick it  
  
  WebElement performanceTesting = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@class=Performance]"));
  
  performanceTesting.click();
  
  

package selenium.webelement.methods;



import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;



import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.PageLoadStrategy;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;



public class WebElementInterfaceMethodsDemo {



 public static void main(String[] args)  {

  

  WebDriver driver;

  

  //loading Chrome driver from physical drive

  System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:\\006_trainings\\chromedriver.exe");

  

  System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.silentOutput", "true");

  //System.setProperty(ChromeDriverService.CHROME_DRIVER_SILENT_OUTPUT_PROPERTY, "true");

  

  //launch the browser

  driver = new ChromeDriver();

  

  //navigate to site

  driver.navigate().to("https://www.testandquiz.com/selenium/testing.html");

  

  //maximize the browser

  driver.manage().window().maximize();

  

  //getText() example --> locate text "This is sample text." on page and display the text

  WebElement ThisIsSimpleText = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//b[contains(text(),'This is sample text.')]"));

  String displayThisIsSimpleText = ThisIsSimpleText.getText();

  System.out.println(displayThisIsSimpleText);

  

  //sendKeys("sadakar") example --> locate TextBox input and enter first name

  WebElement firstName = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id=fname]"));

  firstName.sendKeys("Sadakar");

  

  //clear() --> clear TextBox input and re-enter first name

  firstName.clear();

  firstName.sendKeys("Hasini");

  

  //getAttribute("<attribute>") --> <input id="fname" type="text" name="firstName">

  firstName.getAttribute("value");

  System.out.println("<input id=\"fname\" type=\"text\" name=\"firstName\">");

  System.out.println("Value of value attribute="+firstName.getAttribute("value"));

  System.out.println("Value of id attribute="+firstName.getAttribute("id"));

  System.out.println("Value of type attribute="+firstName.getAttribute("type"));

  System.out.println("Value of name attribute="+firstName.getAttribute("name"));

  

  //radio button click example --> locate "male" radio button and select it

  WebElement male = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id=male]"));

  male.click();

  

  //check box click example - locate "Automation Testing" check box and tick it

  WebElement automationTesting = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@class=Automation]"));

  automationTesting.click();

  

  WebElement performanceTesting = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@class=Performance]"));

  performanceTesting.click();

  

  //close the browser

  driver.close();

  

  //close all the browsers opened by WebDriver during execution and quit the session

  driver.quit();

 }

}