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How can I get the inner text of an element in Selenium?

I'm working with a DOM node:
<input
type="form-control"
type="text"
data-bind="textInput: EnterpriseId"
disabled
autocomplete="off">
How can I get its value? I'm struggling since element.getText() does not work and returns a blank.

Try this:
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("id value"));
String val = element.getAttribute("innerText")

I presume the element in question is an <input> element, so you may be able to use the element.getAttribute(String attribute) method like so:
String value = element.getAttribute("value");

This input tag is disabled, hence element.getText() returns a blank value.
Use element.getAttribute("textContent") instead.

You may be looking for the placeholder of an input text, because you might try:
element.getAttribute("placeholder");

You can go to your browser → open developer tools → inspect element you want to take attribute from → click Properties → check if that value is in InnerText.
Then do as it is mentioned in previous comments:
element_locator.get_attribute('InnerText')

I had the exact same issue! This post solved it for me:
How can I get the current contents of an element in webdriver
I used:
element = driver.find_elements_by_xpath(
'//button[#class="size-grid-dropdown size-grid-button"]')
element.text

As other's suggested, HTML's input nodes don't have a text attribute because they can store data in multiple formats in a value attribute.
This can be easily seen in the HTML input API specification where this form control can be of type radio, date, file upload and many more.
So, in your specific case, I'd suggest you check the webdriver's API for a method that's able to retrieve the value attribute.

As a bonus to evaluate innerText of an element within Selenium:
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("yourEl")));
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.attributeToBe(By.id("yourEl"), "innerText", yourValue));
Documentation: attributeToBe

It works definitely, as I've tested it several times:
<input type="form-control" type="text" data-bind="textInput: EnterpriseId" disabled autocomplete="off">
In your example, you don’t have any innerText. So you can only get attributes as mentioned before with the existing attributes. In your case:
type, data-bind, EnterpriseId and autocomplete. No value will be as this attribute isn’t created.
If you want to get only existing, this should be fine:
String example = driver.findElement(ByLocator(("")).getAttribute("any attribute of your input");
System.out.println(example);

How can i click on this button with selenium

How can i click on this button with selenium ?
<a class="_42ft _4jy0 rfloat _ohf _4jy4 _517h _51sy" role="button" href="" ajaxify="/nux/wizard/step/?action=skip" rel="async-post" id="u_9_8">İleri</a>

Something I wish I would have figured out earlier was how to create my own advanced CSS selectors here is the page that taught me, it will work in all cases assuming your element is visible in the DOM.
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/taming-advanced-css-selectors/
For your given element you could write this many ways
Generic form
tag[attribute='ATTRIBUTE_VALUE']
For your example
a[id='u_9_8']
or
a[class='_42ft _4jy0 rfloat _ohf _4jy4 _517h _51sy']
or
a[rel='async-post']
Now all these selectors will only be useful if the attribute is unique. But take a look at that article there are many tricks you can use to make CSS selectors work for you.

By using xpath with contains text you can click on the element(below is the answer)
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(text(),'Ileri')]")).click();
Try it and let me know if it works for you

Try any of these below mentioned code.
Using id locator
driver.findElement(By.id("u_9_8")).click();
Using xpath locator
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[text()= 'İleri']").click();
Explanation:- Use text method along with <a>tag.
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[#role='button'][text()= 'İleri']").click();
Explanation:- Use role attribute and text method along with <a> tag.

Please add the wait conditions before you are going to click
Element clicking Via linkText :
webDriver.findElement(By.linkText("İleri")).click();
Element clicking Via id :
webDriver.findElement(By.id("u_9_8")).click();
Element clicking Via cssSelector :
1.webDriver.findElement(By.cssSelector("._42ft._4jy0.rfloat._ohf._4jy4._517h._51sy")).click();
2.webDriver.findElement(By.cssSelector("a[class='_42ft _4jy0 rfloat _ohf _4jy4 _517h _51sy']")).click();
Element clicking Via javaScript :
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].click();", webElement);
Here you need to pass the element locator instead of webElement.

We can see ID attribute tag so we can use ID "u_9_8" to click on the button.
use the below code.
driver.findelement(By.id("u_9_8")).click();

I think you should be able to use the id
driver.findElement(By.id("u_9_8")).click();
Give it a shot

Obtain Selenium WebElement from cssSelector over HTML Input

I am quite new on Selenium (started today) and I would like to get the WebElement corresponding to the following html Input:
<input size="25" style="text-align:center;" value="http" onclick="this.select();" type="text"></input>
And then obtain its value. This is what I have tried so far:
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".text-align:center"));
String text = element.getText();
Or this:
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[style='text-align:center']"));
But Java returns in both cases an exception:
org.openqa.selenium.InvalidSelectorException: The given selector
.text-align:center is either invalid or does not result in a
WebElement
Thank you,
Héctor

Do you have to search for the element by cssSelector?
You could give this a try:
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[type='text']"));
If cssSelector is not necessary you could try grabbing the element by xpath.
If you use firefox, there is a plugin called FireBug which allows you to right click after inspecting the element and copying the xpath directly then using :
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("XPATH HERE"));
EDIT: Part of post disappeared, redded it.

Your first try is slightly off
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".text-align:center"));
The (.) in a CSS selector indicates a CSS class name but that's a style on the element and not a class. There is no class on that element to use in that way.
Your second try looks good but maybe it's not unique on the page? Hard to tell with only the one line of HTML. You'd have to provide more of the HTML of the page. Try it again but get the value instead of text.
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[style='text-align:center']"));
System.out.println(element.getAttribute("value"));
Does that work? You likely will have to provide some unique HTML that surrounds the INPUT that we can use to make the CSS selector more specific.

Selenium: how to get the value of hidden element which has all div tags

I would like to get the value of all div tags specified in attached. I have tried with all possible locators like classname etc, which is showing null. and tried with JavaScript also which is returning null.
Please see the screen shot and I need the selected text which is in blue color starts with "Enables enterprise IT to deploy networking services"

You need to research creating selectors as this isn't a difficult one. There are numerous approaches for this element, but here's one for you: $$("#offers-popover .description"). Obviously this is a CSS selector based on the $$ and you use getText from the Selenium API in order to scrape the element text, which is what I assume you are intending to do.
driver.findElement(By.css("#offers-popover .description")).getText();

Since your element is not visible you can try this:
String divText = driver.findElement(By.className("description")).getAttribute("textContent");
Or, if this is not the only element on the page with the class description:
WebElement popElement = driver.findElement(By.id("offers-popover"));
String divText = popElement.findElement(By.className("description")).getAttribute("textContent");

Selenium Webdriver - Find dynamic id from li/a

I am trying to select a value(Bellevue) from a li(it looks like a dropdown but it isn't).The problem is that its id changes everytime the page loads.
Here is a screenshot:
This time the id is: ui-id-23,but the number,23,will be changed next time so this will not work.If I expand the <a id="ui-id-23..." I get the name 'Bellevue' but every character surrounded by < strong > < /strong > mark-up.
I can't find it after it's classname because both values from li have the same class,ui-menu-item.
I tried after xpath:"//a[contains(text(),'Bellevue')]" but I get the error:Unable to locate element...
Do you know any solution for this?I am using Selenium Webdriver in Java and TestNG.
Thanks!
Update
So I managed to find that element by using:
WebElement value = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("a[id^='ui-id-']")).get(3);
value.click(); .
but in my application i am using page objects and i look after elements using #FindBy(how.HOW.....).Do you know how I can use .get(3) with #FindBy?

You want to use a CSS selector on the ID:
a[id^='ui-id-']
This says "Find all of the a elements that have an ID that start with ui-id-"
If you want to find the second item, then do:
driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("a[id^='ui-id-']"))[1]
The [1] will select the second item on the page.

It looks like jQuery uniquId() method is used to populated the id, so it will always start with ui-id-. You can use jQuery selector to select element whose id starts with ui-id-
WebElement webElement = (WebElement) ((JavascriptExecutor) webDriver).executeScript("return $( 'input[id^="ui-id-"]').get(0);");

I would try to use xpath avoiding using of id. For example, //a[#class=''ui-corner-all ui-state-focus ][2]

First get the tag name in which your id attribute has been defined.
WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.tagName(tagName));
String strId = ele.getAttribute("id").startsWith("ui-id-");
driver.findElement(By.id(strId)).click();