Selenium WebDriver，从DOM获取，从空值获取

Question

I have field, that after few minutes will be filled. So far so good. But when is filled, in inspect elements it's look like:

<div class="column1 last">
              <input type="text" name="usedFile" size="100" value="" readonly="readonly" style="width:99%" class="disabled">
            </div>

So, in front-page, the text is visible: "Some text", but when i click inspect element, it's show this above. So how, I can get the text from filed? It's DOM this?

Answer 1

String text = driver.findElement(By.name("usedFile")).getText();

Answer 2

This is a textbox so you cannot use getText() in it. To get data out of it , you need following code

String text = driver.findElement(By.name("usedFile")).getAttribute("value");