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Getting current text of an input field using Selenium

Let's say I have this input element:

<input id="email" value="some@email.com">

I am executing this piece of code:

var emailInputField = driver.FindElement(By.Id(email));
var email = emailInputField.GetAttribute("value");
emailInputField .InputField.Clear();
var empty = emailInputField.GetAttribute("value");

I would expect the empty variable to be empty, but it contains the same text as the email , since I cleared the text. I understand that the value attribute is not in sync with the entered text, so my question is, how do I know what text is currently in the textbox?

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Since you have already selected an element and assigned to it emailInputField

, then empty will refer to that. If you reassign emailInputField

after cleanup and then get the value, it should be empty. So:



var emailInputField = driver.FindElement(By.Id(email));
var email = emailInputField.GetAttribute("value");
emailInputField .InputField.Clear();
var empty = driver.FindElement(By.Id(email)).GetAttribute("value");
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var emailInputField = driver.FindElement(By.Id(email));
var email = emailInputField.GetAttribute("value");
emailInputField.InputField.Clear();
var empty = emailInputField.GetAttribute("value");


On the third line you make a mistake, try above

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