Using Playwright for Python, how to I read the content of an input box

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In a website I'm automating, I have an input box that is disabled.

On the website it shows a number, like "1" and has other elements to change the value.

<input data-v-a6368fd8="" id="base-amount-input-211" max="10" name="Counter" disabled="disabled" type="number" class="amount-input__number amount-input__number--active">

When I query the element like

handle = page.querySelector('//input[starts-with(@name, "Counter")]')

I get a result for the handle.

When I try readling the handle content

handle.innerText() 

handle.innerHTML()

are both empty ('')

How can I access the current input value?

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3 Answers

Another way is to simply use the getAttribute() method of the elementHandle to retrieve the value:

handle = page.querySelector('//input[starts-with(@name, "Counter")]')
value = handle.getAttribute("value")
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For input elements, the element.value returns the filled in content. You can use page.evalOnSelector to run JS in the page against this selector and get the value.

selector = '//input[starts-with(@name, "Counter")]'
value = page.evalOnSelector(selector, "(element) => element.value")
user_14692220

Currently, although arjunattam's answer still works, albeit with evalOnSelector() being replaced with eval_on_selector(), the most simple way to do this is with the input_value() function:

handle = page.query_selector('//input[starts-with(@name, "Counter")]')
value = handle.input_value()

buddemat's answer does not work and should not be used.

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