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TextArea: WebElement.getText() and .getAttribute("value") should be different #2131

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lukeis opened this issue Mar 2, 2016 · 4 comments
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TextArea: WebElement.getText() and .getAttribute("value") should be different #2131

lukeis opened this issue Mar 2, 2016 · 4 comments
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lukeis commented Mar 2, 2016

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 2131

Hi all,

With 2.1.0, the far below HTML and WebDriver test case works differently with FF 5
/ IE 9 / HtmlUnit 2.8

Output:
IE: 
getText() a,a,                    -> Correct (should it be "a,")
getAttribute() a,a,               -> Correct (should it be "a,")

FF: 
getText()                         -> Incorrect
getAttribute() a,a,               -> Correct (should it be "a,")

HU: 
getText()                         -> Incorrect (due to WebDriver)
getAttribute()                    -> Incorrect (due to HtmlUnit)

Please note that HtmlUnit 2.8 behaves correctly for getText(), but not with getAttribute()
which I will try to fix.


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<html><head><title>foo</title><script>
  function init() {
    var s = document.getElementById('s');
    if (s.addEventListener) {
      s.addEventListener('click', handle, false);
    } else if (s.attachEvent) {
      s.attachEvent('onclick', handle);
    }
  }
  function handle(event) {
    myTextArea.value += s.options[s.selectedIndex].value + ',';
  }
</script></head><body onload='init()'>
  <select id='s'>
    <option value='a'>A</option>
    <option id='opb' value='b'>B</option>
    <option value='c'>C</option>
  </select>
  <textarea id=myTextArea></textarea>

</body></html>
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WebDriver:
        WebDriver driver = ....;
        driver.get(url);
        driver.findElement(By.id("opb")).click();

        WebElement e = driver.findElement(By.id("myTextArea"));
        System.out.println("getText() " + e.getText());
        System.out.println("getAttribute() " + e.getAttribute("value"));
        Thread.sleep(3000);
        driver.close();
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HtmlUnit:
        WebClient webClient = ...;
        HtmlPage page = webClient.getPage(url);
        page.getHtmlElementById("opb").click();

        HtmlTextArea e = page.getHtmlElementById("myTextArea");
        System.out.println("getText() " + e.getText());
        System.out.println("getAttribute() " + e.getAttribute("value"));

Reported by asashour@yahoo.com on 2011-07-26 10:25:03
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lukeis commented Mar 2, 2016 

To make this even more complex, try selecting 'B' in real InternetExplorer and Firefox.

With InternetExplorer:
- User must click on the parent 'select', and then he can click 'b'. In other words,
you can't have the output to 'b,' manually.

With Firefox:
- User can click directly to 'b,' without the need to click the 'select' first.

Should those differences be considered?

Reported by asashour@yahoo.com on 2011-07-26 10:34:23

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lukeis commented Mar 2, 2016

Reported by simon.m.stewart on 2011-08-08 07:58:24

  • Labels added: GettingInvolved

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lukeis commented Mar 2, 2016 

What is the meaning of the label "GettingInvolved"?

Reported by mguillemot@yahoo.fr on 2011-08-08 08:02:48

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lukeis commented Mar 3, 2016

dawagner:

GettingInvolved means this is a good candidate for a bug for someone who wants to start contributing to Selenium to start by looking at, i.e. it's probably not crazily complex, not too huge, and doesn't have much decision-making needed to define the correct answer.

mguillemot@yahoo.fr:

Thanks for the explanation. What about adding a wiki page for the different statii you use for the project's issues?

barancev:

New tests were added by r18247 and r18252
Currently only IE suffers of this issue.
See TextHandlingTest methods testTextOfATextAreaShouldBeEqualToItsDefaultTextEvenAfterTyping and testTextOfATextAreaShouldBeEqualToItsDefaultTextEvenAfterChangingTheValue

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