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How to set the innerText of a non-input element?

Can you give an example of what you mean? You could try importing import org.openqa.selenium.Keys as Keys and sending the desired text as key actions WebUI.sendKeys(findTestObject(‘Your_Object_Goes_Here’), Keys.chord(Keys.ARROW_RIGHT))

Hi, can you help me why i can’t get text that input text? [Screenshot_2] [Screenshot_1] [Screenshot_3]

You are not targeting the correct element. I typically bring up Object spy and capture as much of an element as possible. Notice that when you hover over elements, sometimes the red border shifts on just the text, the entire field, etc. Figure out how you need to target it then go from there. Techni…

I’ve come across an issue where WebUI.getText is not able to trim the trailing space in actual text. The actual text rendered in webpage HTML has &nbsp at the end. This is causing the trailing space. I thought WebUI.getText will take care of it but it didn’t work. Example: Actual Text in webpage …

They said it removes whitespace in which case that’s a bug. Please make out a bug report, mention it should remove all whitespace including HTML entities like &emsp; etc.

Done, here’s the link. [image] WebUI.getText not trimming trailing space Bugs Report I’ve come across an issue where WebUI.getText is not able to trim the trailing space in actual text. The actual text rendered in webpage HTML has &nbsp at the end. This is causing the…

The default wait time is 30 seconds for this method. How do we reduce the wait time? I don’t want to wait for 30 sec during execution. Can we do something about it?

To find out to use “getText” or “getAttribute”, right click on the page and select Inspect. Right click near the element you want to check and select Inspect a second time (the first time should open the code window and the second time should jump right to the element by your cursor). If your code …

Hello, Can i have, some help ? Im looking for display the value of this element : cdc123 I used this commande : WebUI.getText(findTestObject(‘Page_FAYATFred/Pointage/Page_FayatFRED/Pointage/Liste des rapport/Label_Profil_connecté’)) the result is : “” The expected result : “cdc123” ==> do you …

[WebUI] Get Text

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mpurohit May 10, 2019, 7:14am 9

Done, here’s the link.

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[WebUI] Get Text

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