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I'm afraid this is a whole rookie question but I can't figure out how to solve it: I have a password field that I want to test is visible after clicking the "Show password" icon. I see the HTML changes from type="password" to type="text" when I click the icon, but I can't figure out how to read the password text. I can see it after clicking the icon, but I can't log the text to the console and I can't get any expect fulfilling the condition to validate the password text. I've tried using toHaveText, toHaveValue, toBe, allInnerTexts, textContent... with no luck. When I try to log the password to the console, even having it visible, I get only an empty value. Can some one help with this, please? This is the related html after clicking the show password icon (the password in this example is mypass):

<input id="password" data-testid="input-field" data-e2e="login-form-password-input" name="password" autocomplete="password" placeholder="*************" type="text" data-tw="pl-4 | pr-2.5" class="css-zihc96" value="mypass">

and this is how I'm trying to extract its text:

const passValue = await page.locator('[data-e2e="login-form-password-input"]').textContent() console.log('Pass: ' + passValue)

Thanks in advance!

This thread is trying to answer question "How can I test the visibility of a password field and read the password text after clicking the 'Show password' icon?"

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.aleksandaraleksandrov
.aleksandaraleksandrov

Can you share the site, so I can have a look and tell you if I found something?

I think, if your input is "mypass", it goes to value. So if should be toHaveValue(). So the line that you need is await expect(page.locator('[data-e2e="login-form-password-input"]')).toHaveValue("mypass")

Tested your solution, it will result to empty string ""

So if the problem is just to test whether the password will show/display when clicking the icon

This is how i will test it

// Fill or Type Password await page.locator('your-test-id/selector/locator').type('mypass') // Click Show Password Icon await page.locator(''your-test-id/selector/locator').click(); // In this part i suggest to use an xpath, im using LetXPath extension here, i typed mypass in the password field, and right click it to inspect and get the class based xpath expect(await page.waitForSelector("//input[@value='mypass']", { state: 'visible' })).toBeTruthy();

I have had a similar issue. The only sensible way I could perform a check was to verify that the type attribute of the field has changed from 'password' to 'text'. So something like:

`` await expect(page.locator('[data-e2e="login-form-password-input"]')).toHaveAttribute('type', 'password') await page.locator('the locator for the show/hide button').click() await expect(page.locator('[data-e2e="login-form-password-input"]')).toHaveAttribute('type', 'text')

perhaps page.getByTestId('input-field').getAttribute('value') but I'm not sure

carrascletnou_75491
@.aleksandaraleksandrov: No, sorry; it isn't in production yet. The problem with 'toHaveValue' is that it passes even before clicking the show password icon. Thanks anyway ๐Ÿ™‚

No, sorry; it isn't in production yet. The problem with 'toHaveValue' is that it passes even before clicking the show password icon. Thanks anyway ๐Ÿ™‚

.aleksandaraleksandrov
.aleksandaraleksandrov

yeah, you have to have the line with the click, before that

carrascletnou_75491
@svetlalev: Worked like a charm. Thanks!

Worked like a charm. Thanks!

carrascletnou_75491
@.aleksandaraleksandrov: Sure, but in this case clicking or not the show password icon will not make any difference: the test passes even without clicking the icon.

Sure, but in this case clicking or not the show password icon will not make any difference: the test passes even without clicking the icon.

.aleksandaraleksandrov
.aleksandaraleksandrov

yeah, the value is set as soon as you fill the textfield. That is true ๐Ÿ™‚

carrascletnou_75491
@poteytofu: Good point Sir; it worked as expected ๐Ÿ™‚ Thanks.

Good point Sir; it worked as expected ๐Ÿ™‚ Thanks.

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