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| Gets the value of the specified attribute for this element. | |
| </div><p /><b>Namespace:</b> <a href="N_OpenQA_Selenium.htm">OpenQA.Selenium</a><br /><b>Assembly:</b> <span sdata="assembly">WebDriver</span> (in WebDriver.dll) Version: 2.21.0.0 (2.21.0.0)<h1 class="heading"><span onclick="ExpandCollapse(syntaxToggle)" style="cursor:default;" onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(syntaxToggle, event)" tabindex="0"><img id="syntaxToggle" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />Syntax</span></h1><div id="syntaxSection" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style=""><div id="syntaxCodeBlocks" class="code"><span codeLanguage="CSharp"><table><tr><th>C#</th></tr><tr><td><pre xml:space="preserve"><a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s1wwdcbf" target="_blank">string</a> <span class="identifier">GetAttribute</span>( | |
| <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s1wwdcbf" target="_blank">string</a> <span class="parameter">attributeName</span> | |
| )</pre></td></tr></table></span><span codeLanguage="VisualBasicDeclaration"><table><tr><th>Visual Basic</th></tr><tr><td><pre xml:space="preserve"><span class="keyword">Function</span> <span class="identifier">GetAttribute</span> ( _ | |
| <span class="parameter">attributeName</span> <span class="keyword">As</span> <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s1wwdcbf" target="_blank">String</a> _ | |
| ) <span class="keyword">As</span> <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s1wwdcbf" target="_blank">String</a></pre></td></tr></table></span><span codeLanguage="ManagedCPlusPlus"><table><tr><th>Visual C++</th></tr><tr><td><pre xml:space="preserve"><a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s1wwdcbf" target="_blank">String</a>^ <span class="identifier">GetAttribute</span>( | |
| <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s1wwdcbf" target="_blank">String</a>^ <span class="parameter">attributeName</span> | |
| )</pre></td></tr></table></span></div><div id="parameters"><h4 class="subHeading">Parameters</h4><dl paramName="attributeName"><dt><span class="parameter">attributeName</span></dt><dd>Type: <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s1wwdcbf" target="_blank">System<span class="languageSpecificText"><span class="cs">.</span><span class="vb">.</span><span class="cpp">::</span><span class="nu">.</span><span class="fs">.</span></span>String</a><br />The name of the attribute.</dd></dl></div><h4 class="subHeading">Return Value</h4>The attribute's current value. Returns a <span class="keyword"><span class="languageSpecificText"><span class="cs">null</span><span class="vb">Nothing</span><span class="cpp">nullptr</span></span></span><span class="nu">a null reference (<span class="keyword">Nothing</span> in Visual Basic)</span> if the | |
| value is not set.</div><h1 class="heading"><span onclick="ExpandCollapse(remarksToggle)" style="cursor:default;" onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(remarksToggle, event)" tabindex="0"><img id="remarksToggle" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />Remarks</span></h1><div id="remarksSection" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style="">The <span class="selflink">GetAttribute(String)</span> method will return the current value | |
| of the attribute, even if the value has been modified after the page has been | |
| loaded. Note that the value of the following attributes will be returned even if | |
| there is no explicit attribute on the element: | |
| <div class="tableSection"><table width="100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5" frame="lhs"><tr><th>Attribute name</th><th>Value returned if not explicitly specified</th><th>Valid element types</th></tr><tr><td>checked</td><td>checked</td><td>Check Box</td></tr><tr><td>selected</td><td>selected</td><td>Options in Select elements</td></tr><tr><td>disabled</td><td>disabled</td><td>Input and other UI elements</td></tr></table></div></div><h1 class="heading"><span onclick="ExpandCollapse(exceptionsToggle)" style="cursor:default;" onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(exceptionsToggle, event)" tabindex="0"><img id="exceptionsToggle" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />Exceptions</span></h1><div id="exceptionsSection" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style=""><div class="tableSection"><table width="100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5" frame="lhs"><tr><th class="exceptionNameColumn">Exception</th><th class="exceptionConditionColumn">Condition</th></tr><tr><td><a href="T_OpenQA_Selenium_StaleElementReferenceException.htm">OpenQA.Selenium<span class="languageSpecificText"><span class="cs">.</span><span class="vb">.</span><span class="cpp">::</span><span class="nu">.</span><span class="fs">.</span></span>StaleElementReferenceException</a></td><td>Thrown when the target element is no longer valid in the document DOM.</td></tr></table></div></div><h1 class="heading"><span onclick="ExpandCollapse(seeAlsoToggle)" style="cursor:default;" onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(seeAlsoToggle, event)" tabindex="0"><img id="seeAlsoToggle" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />See Also</span></h1><div id="seeAlsoSection" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style=""><div class="seeAlsoStyle"><a href="T_OpenQA_Selenium_IWebElement.htm">IWebElement Interface</a></div><div class="seeAlsoStyle"><a href="N_OpenQA_Selenium.htm">OpenQA.Selenium Namespace</a></div></div></div><div id="footer"><div class="footerLine"><img width="100%" height="3px" src="../icons/footer.gif" alt="Footer image" title="Footer image" /></div><A NAME="feedback"></A><span id="fb" class="feedbackcss"></span><p />Send comments on this topic to | |
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