How to get entered text from a textbox in selenium

Question

I enter a value in TextBox or a Combobox and would like to retrieve the value I have just entered. I see that the Selenium Weblement method 'getText()' doesn't retrieve the value, it seems the entered text doesn't get pushed into DOM.

Any Solutions?

Answer 1

Try getValue if it is a Text Field or Dropdown box

String lastname=selenium.getValue("//*[@id='lastName']");

System.out.println(lastname);