How to get HTML code of a WebElement in Selenium
I am new at testing so my apologies in advance if my question sounds a bit primary.
I am using Selenium and Java to write a test.
I know that
webElement.getAttribute("innerHTML"); brings me the innerHTML, for example for the element below:
<a href="#" class="ui-dialog-titlebar-close ui-corner-all" role="button" style="position: absolute; border-radius: 0px 0px 4px 4px;">
<span class="ui-icon ui-icon-closethick">close</span>
</a>
it returns:
<span class="ui-icon ui-icon-closethick">close</span>
but I need something that brings me the inner attribute of WebElement "a", something like below:
href="#" class="ui-dialog-titlebar-close ui-corner-all" role="button" style="position: absolute; border-radius: 0px 0px 4px 4px;"
Answer
If you want the HTML of the element itself, you can use
webElement.getAttribute("outerHTML");
It will return the HTML of the element itself plus all the children elements. I'm not sure if that's exactly what you want. I don't think there is a way to just get the HTML of the selected element only.