Get value of content-desc

[NitinKumar]

Try xpath
xpath = "//android.widget.EditText[contains(@content-desc,‘Enter name on card’)]"
or if you want to get the value then you can try
getAttribute(‘content-desc’)

[vkek_singh]

Try below will surely work -

1. driver.findElementByAccessibilityId(" string value");
2. xpath = ("//android.widget.EditText[@content-desc=‘login_email_input’]");

[igal_epshtein]

@Telmo_Cardoso I was wondering , where did you find the list of available / supported attributes ?

[Telmo_Cardoso]

Hi @igal_epshtein,

I have no idea

But you made me curious. I just searched a bit and I think those are defined differently according to the driver used.

For UIA2 if you look in getElementAttributeValue() method under app/src/main/java/io/appium/uiautomator2/handler/GetElementAttribute.java you find out:

• “name”
• “contentDescription”
• “text”
• “className”
• “resourceId”
• “contentSize”

Then it fallback to a call to getBoolAttribute() method under app/src/main/java/io/appium/uiautomator2/model/UiObject2Element.java where you can also find:

• “enabled”
• “checkable”
• “checked”
• “clickable”
• “focusable”
• “focused”
• “longClickable”
• “scrollable”
• “selected”
• “displayed”
• “password”

[igal_epshtein]

Thanks !
Will try to work with them soon

[Narender_Kumar]

HI Guys,

I have below attributes:

index 0
text Remember me?
class android.widget.CheckBox
content-desc
checkable true
checked true
clickable true
enabled true
focusable true
focused false
scrollable false
long-clickable false
password false
selected false
bounds [128,1313][827,1377]
resource-id com.cmo.compliance.android:id/remember
instance 0

I am able to get boolean attribute checked etc but not able to getAttribute(“instance”). How to get instance value?

Please help me.

[Umar_Khan]

1. What error you get when you try to get instance value by using getAttribute method?
2. Why do you even need to access instance attribute: what’s the scenario? what do you want to accomplish?
3. Screenshot?

[sonu]

element.getAttribute(“contentDescription”) worked. But element.getAttribute(“name”) did not give the correct value. Thanks.

[Telmo_Cardoso]

in UIAUtomator2 it does work anymore

You probably (I hope so) using UIAutomator2, so name doesn’t work

[prat3ik]

Thank you getAttribute("name") worked for me!