Verify Placeholder Text in Selenium

In this article, we will see how to verify placeholder text.

• Placeholder text, or dummy text, is a temporary text used as a visual aid for designing and laying out content. 
• It is commonly used in the website and graphic design, and it typically appears in form fields, search bars, and other user input areas where text can be entered.

• This is a simple placeholder text in the search bar of the programsbuzz site.
• Using the get attribute method, let us verify the text within the search bar, which is the placeholder text.

    WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();
        ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

        driver.get("https://www.programsbuzz.com/user/login");

        driver.manage().window().maximize();

        driver.findElement(By.className("fa-search")).click();

        WebElement searchBox = driver.findElement(By.id("edit-keys"));

        String placeText = searchBox.getAttribute("placeholder");

        if (placeText.equals("Enter the terms you wish to search for"))
            System.out.println("Correct placeText is shown ......PASSED");
        else
            System.out.println("Correct placeText NOT is shown ......PASSED");

        driver.close();

• First, we fetched the search bar, and then using the same locator, we got the attribute placeholder of the search bar.
• With that, we verified the text within it.