QTP - getting value of element

Question

Hi, I am beginning with QTP and just cannot find out how to get value of element. For example when I just want to compare the number of results found by google. I tried to select the element with object spy and use Val(Element) to assign the value into variable..but it doesnt work. Could anyone help with this? BTW, I am not sure whether selecting the text (element) to compare with Object spy is correct. Thanks!

Answer 1

You should use GetROProperty in order to get the text and then parse it for the value.

Looking at a Google results page I see that the result is in a paragraph with id=resultStats in the 3rd bold tag.

 <p id="resultStats"> Results <b>1</b> - <b>10</b> of about 
    <b>2,920,000</b> 
 for <b>qtp</b>. (<b>0.22</b> seconds)</p>

So the following script gets the number (as a string with commas).

Browser("micclass:=Browser")
 .Page("micclass:=Page")
  .WebElement("html id:=resultStats")
   .WebElement("html tag:=b","index:=2").GetROProperty("innertext")