How do you check whether an attribute is present or not in selenium?
The getAttribute() method is declared in the WebElement interface, and it returns the value of the web element’s attribute as a string. For attributes having boolean values, the getAttribute() method will return either true or null.
What is a null alt attribute?
Alt tags are used to describe the contents of images, but some images don’t convey any meaning and are therefore considered “decorative.” Decorative images do not need to be announced by the screen reader, so if the alt attribute is empty (alt=””, aka a “null” tag) it will not be announced to the user.
How to get the value of an attribute using selenium?
Other solutions are wrong, because it takes forever to call getAttribute for each element from Selenium if you have more than a few. Selenium Xpath can only return elements. You should pass javascript function that executes xpaths and returns strings to selenium.
Is there a way to get Alt in selenium?
I have no problems finding the div element, when I invoke getText () I would wish to receive ” Having a Meow always helps “, but instead I get the text without the alt ( Meow) description. I agree this is the expected behaviour, but this is not what I need.
How to inline image alt attribute and Gettext?
Considers “Having a always helps” as innerText of Div element. i would suggest….to extract the Div text and img (alt) text separately. if text follows a pattern, try to identify sequence after or before which image attribute will be displayed. Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow! Please be sure to answer the question.
Can a selenium XPath return an element?
Selenium Xpath can only return elements. You should pass javascript function that executes xpaths and returns strings to selenium. I’m not sure why they made it this way. Xpath should support returning strings.