Extracting Placeholder From Html Tag Using Python Selenium

I am using the following python code to launch the Firefox webpage. from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys driver= webdriver.Firefox() drive

Solution 1:

To get placeholder attribute use get_attribute()

element.get_attribute('placeholder')

Solution 2:

Define the xpath of the input tag which you wish to extract the placeholder.

xpath_input = "//input[@id='__w2_wZgD2YHa18_email']"
driver.find_element_by_xpath(xpath_input)

After get the element, you can extract placeholder ("Email") by get_attribute("placeholder")

Solution 3:

To extract the placeholder text i.e. Email you need to induce WebDriverWait for the desired element to be clickable and then use get_attribute() method as follows:

• Line of Code:

  print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@class='text header_login_text_box ignore_interaction' and @name='email']"))).get_attribute("placeholder"))
  

• Console Output:

  Email
  

• Note : You have to add the following imports :

  from selenium.webdriver.support.uiimportWebDriverWaitfrom selenium.webdriver.common.byimportByfrom selenium.webdriver.supportimport expected_conditions asEC