getAttribute or getText

Question

I have a script to sign up for a facebook account which is done automatically as in the picture below:

I now want to extract what I have written so I have tried the following code but nothin appears?

    WebElement fNameText = driver.findElement(By.name("firstname"));
    String Txt = fNameText.getText();
    System.out.println(Txt);

Answer 1

You can use String Txt = fNameText.getAttribute("value"); to get the value in the textbox