Browser Actions › Actions › Get Form Field Value (β)

Returns a form field's value. For radio buttons, it'll be the value of the selected one of the radio set. For checkboxes, either 'checked' or 'unchecked'.

Parameters

Browser

The browser to work with.

Selecting "frontmost browser" will only work if the application currently in the foreground is a supported browser.

Type: Browser

Target tab

Specify which tab you want to work with. The option "active tab of frontmost window" will target the currently active tab at the time this action is executed, while "specific tab" will let you target an existing browser tab.

Options:

• active tab of frontmost window
• specific tab

Specific browser tab

If Target tab is set to "specific tab", this parameter expects a browser tab reference.

Type: Browser Tab

Match form field

Select how the form field should be looked up, either by the field's name or id attribute, or by a CSS selector (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/CSS_Selector for more info).

Options:

• with name attribute of
• with id attribute of
• identified by CSS selector

Form field

The form field descriptor, i.e. either the field's name or id attribute, or a CSS selector, depending on what's selected in Match form field.

Type: Text

Return Value

Text

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