Xpath/ search input node by text

Question

I have a search box (<input> element), and I try to get the element by the text that written into it.

I try to do the next:

// input [@value= "my text"] 

but it doesn't work (just to be clear - the value is not attribute of the input element. accully, when I do inspect element, I don't see the text that written in this text box).

<div class="EwdOOOOO">
 <div class="GOOOEOOO">Hello </div> 
 <input type="text" class="GOBLEOOO"> 
</div>

and the seatch box I put:

"How are you?"

You can see that "How are you?" isn't found in the DOM.

Thanks.

Solution

Are you sure to get your input and populate it ?

like :

WebElement input = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@class='GOBLEOOO']"));
input.sendKeys("How are you?");

So you can get your element like that :

WebElement inputByValue = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value='my text']"));

or you have another way to do that

WebElement inputByValue= driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[contains(@value,'my text')]"));

contains() return true if the value of your attribute @value contains the next parameter (string)

Because there is always a value attribute in an input since you type values in. Here for more Input specs.

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If you want to found an element with the value you typed in the input field you can use this xpath.

// you get the value you typed in the input
String myValue = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@class='GOBLEOOO']")).getAttribute("value"); 

//you get a element that contains myValue into his attributes
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(@id ,myValue) or contains(@value, myValue) or contains(@name, myValue)]"));