[🐛 Bug]: getDomAttrtibute does not return the value after entering anything inside the textbox and print it

[shreyans1223]

What happened?

Selenium Version: 4.27.0

Reproducible browsers: Chrome(V131), Edge(V131)

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open any browser
2. Add text into the textbox
3. print the value using the getDomAttrtibute

Note: Issue does not reproducible for the getAttrtibute property.

How can we reproduce the issue?

public class getTextBoxValue() {
      public static void main(String[] args) {
           WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
           driver.manage().window().maximize();
           driver.get("http://www.automationpractice.pl/index.php");

          WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("search_query"));
          element.click();
          element.sendKeys("iPhone");

          System.out.println(element.getDomAttrtibute("value"));
      }
}

Relevant log output

There is no value printed in console after running above script.

Operating System

Windows 11

Selenium version

Java(V21) & Selenium(4.27.0)

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chrome(V131), Edge(V131)

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chromedriver(V131)

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No response

[github-actions]

@shreyans1223, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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[gokulsam07]

@shreyans1223 getAttribute is deprecated, reason it didn't work is there is no corresponding value in the DOM for the attribute 'value'. Try with getDomProperty. It should work.