Fetching or Verifying text or value from web page in selenium RC

Generally Verification looks easy when we use selenium IDE , but it looks complex to write appropriate method for fetching or retrieving value.

GetText and GetValue methods are two important methods which deals with fetching and retrieving value from webpage.

GetText (Gets the text of an element.It is very useful when we try to fetch or verify value from SPAN,DIV ) 

    Syntax:         public java.lang.String getText(java.lang.String locator)

    Parameters:     locator - an Element Locator

    Returns:        The text of the element

Example:

        stextToVerify=selenium. GetText   (Locator)

GetValue (Gets the text of an element.It is very useful when we try to fetch or verify value from Webedit,checkbox,radio button,... ) 




    Syntax:         public java.lang.String getValue(java.lang.String locator)
    Parameters:     locator - an Element Locator
    Returns:        the element value, or "on/off" for checkbox/radio


Example:
        sValueToVerify=selenium. GetValue (Locator)


NOTE:-  where selenium is the object of DefaultSelenium  class