Selenium "storeAttribute" example to store URL or any other attribute value of element node

How to use "storeAttribute" command in selenium

"storeAttribute" command stores the attribute value of specified element in given variable. You can store any attribute's value using "storeAttribute" command. You need to provide proper path of element node followed by an @ sign and then the name of the attribute (e.g. a@href . Here "a" is element's node name and "href " is
attribute name which we want to store) in target column of selenium IDE.

Bellow are couple of examples to understand "storeAttribute" command.

Examples of "storeAttribute" command

New Test
Command	Target	Value
open	http://www.google.com
storeAttribute	xpath=//body/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div/ol/li[3]/a@href	Myhref
echo	${Myhref}

Look in to above example. "storeAttribute" command will store value of attribute 'href' in to variable = 'Myhref'. Here, "xpath=//body/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div/ol/li[3]/a" is the xpath of node = a . Click here to learn how to write xpath of any element node. You need to provide proper path of element to get it's  any attribute value. Bellow some more examples.

New Test
Command	Target	Value
open	http://www.google.com
storeAttribute	xpath=//body/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div/ol/li[3]/a@id	Myid
echo	${Myid}
storeAttribute	xpath=//body/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div/ol/li[3]/a@onclick	Myonclick
echo	${Myonclick}
storeAttribute	xpath=//body/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div/ol/li[3]/a@class	Myclass
echo	${Myclass}

1st "storeAttribute" command will store value of attribute 'id' in to variable = 'Myid'.

2nd "storeAttribute" command will store value of attribute 'onclick' in to variable = 'Myonclick'.

3rd "storeAttribute" command will store value of attribute 'class' in to variable = 'Myclass'.

In this way, you can get any element's attribute value and use that value at stage of script.

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