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royd
Regular Contributor
8 years ago
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GetAttribute not working! Help!

TestComplete 12.2 and IE11   I have a script that isolates security code from email (thanks to Shanker_R). It had worked without any trouble in the past. It stopped working now! The problem stems f...
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    royd
    8 years ago

    Okay, I finally figured it out! "getAttribute" works only with native web objects! I used "contentText" and resulted blank log!!

     

    Replaced contentText with innerText and it worked! Lesson learned!

     

    Thank you Shankar and Karthik for your efforts. I really appreciate.

     

    Dave

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AlexKaras
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Hi Dave,

 

> I am happy to say it actually does work!

OK, that's great. The advantage of contentText against innerText is not only the simplicity, but the fact that contentText is a wrapping property provided by TestComplete and thus it exists for any supported browser, while innerText is a native property and it might not exist or be named differently for different browser.

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royd
Regular Contributor
8 years ago

Point well taken! I'll have to remember that!

 

Thanks!