Get_element_value - not returning anything

[cmprogrock]

Hi all,
I'm opening a webdialog with a url.
The page has a span element with ID='TestElement' <span ID="TestElement">Hello World</span>

I call get_element_value (MyVar = dialog.get_element_value("TestElement")

I call UI.messagebox MyVar...thinking it will say "Hello World" ... but I get nothing.

Am I missing something?

Does get_element_value return a string?
(I'm sure the page has loaded)

Any Ideas?

Thanks
CM

[Jim]

a SPAN does not have a value. If there is no other HTML in the span, then you can get the contents by innerHTML. I am not sure if using the WebDialog method "get_element_value" will work in this case.

// javascript
var txt = document.getElementById("TestElement").innerHTML