Access element innerText / innerHTML

[mraspe]

What are you trying to achieve? (Expected behavior)

Attribute "innerText/innerHTML" of an element (td) should not be empty (in Firefox).

What do you get instead? (Actual behavior)

In Chrome I get the correct string of an element attribute (innerText). In Firefox the string is always empty.

How could the issue be reproduced? (Steps to reproduce)

In a PHP test I try to get the content of an element (td): $column->getAttribute('innerText');
With Selenium server version 3.8.1 it had still worked. With version 3.141.59 it only works in chrome.

Details

• Php-webdriver version: 1.8.3
• PHP version: 7.2.34
• Selenium server version: 3.141.59
• Operating system: Win10
• Browser used + version: Firefox 81.0, Chrome 85.0.4183.121
• Geckodriver: 0.27.0
• Chrome Diver: 85.0.4183.38

[OndraM]

To get text value of an element, you can use native WebDriver method $element->getText().
To get JavaScript property like innerHTML or childElementCount etc., use getDomProperty() method (see example below).
getAttribute() could be used only to get value of DOM element attribute (like "class", "id", "style" etc.) .

$innerHtml = $driver->findElement($element)->getDomProperty('innerHTML');

See wiki

Alternatively, you can ale use executeScript() to get the same result:

$innerHtml = $driver->executeScript('return arguments[0].innerHtml', $element)

[rmontanana]

$innerHtml = $driver->executeScript('return arguments[0].innerHtml', [$element])

actually works for me
Thx!

[OndraM]

Actually, there is already a better way! You can try:

$innerHtml = $driver->findElement(WebDriverBy::id('myelement'))->getDomProperty('innerHTML');

See wiki.

I will update the answer to be up-to-date.

[rmontanana]

Indeed it does, thank you very much!

[mraspe]

Hi,
okay, thank you!

I was wondering why you get different values with "innerText" (empty, not empty) in Chrome and Firefox. With $element->getText it works,