How to get an attribute of an element from Selenium

Question

I'm working with Selenium in Python. I would like to get the .val() of a <select> element and check that it is what I expect.

This is my code:

def test_chart_renders_from_url(self):
    url = 'http://localhost:8000/analyse/'
    self.browser.get(url)
    org = driver.find_element_by_id('org')
    # Find the value of org?

How can I do this? The Selenium documentation seem to have plenty about selecting elements but nothing about attributes.

Answer 1

You are probably looking for get_attribute(). An example is shown here as well

def test_chart_renders_from_url(self):
    url = 'http://localhost:8000/analyse/'
    self.browser.get(url)
    org = driver.find_element_by_id('org')
    # Find the value of org?
    val = org.get_attribute("attribute name")