How to get text from a textarea we entered using selenium

Question

How can I get the text that I entered in a text-area using Selenium where the text entered in the developer options in Chrome and Mozilla where in IE its visible in the developer section. Using gettext() I am able to get the text from IE but giving me nothing using the same for Chrome and Mozilla.

string text = 
       driver.findelement(
           by.xpath("//textarea[@placeholder='E‌​nter a description']")
       ).gettext();

Answer 1

尝试这个：

String text=driver.findelement(By.xpath("//textarea[@placeholder='E‌​nter a description']")).getAttribute("value");

Answer 2

One of the below attributes should get the text using following :

• text
• textContent
• innerText
• innerHTML
• nodeValue
• value

Answer 3

Providing vague solution since it is difficult to suggest without HTML

String text=driver.findelement(By.xpath("//textarea[@placeholder='E‌​nter a description']")).getAttribute("innerHTML")//or .getAttribute("outerHTML") ;

Use string functions to get the required value!