inputValue() and textContent() difference and when to use them in Playwright Java.

inputValue() is used to retrieve the value of input elements that you just typed.

textContent() is a method that is used to get the visible text content of an element on a web page. it can be a header tag. This method is useful for web scraping and verifying the content of a page.

Here is a code example

page.navigate("https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/forgot_password");
Locator inputTextField=page.locator("//input[@id='email']");


// Get input text of an element using inputValue();
String actualInputVal=inputTextField.inputValue();
System.out.println("actualInputVal=="+actualInputVal);
// Assert the value of it using  hasValue
assertThat(inputTextField).hasValue("My input");


Locator forgetPasswordHeader=page.locator("//h2[text()='Forgot Password']");
String forgetPasswordHeaderActualText=forgetPasswordHeader.textContent();
System.out.println("forgetPasswordHeaderActualText=="+forgetPasswordHeaderActualText);
// you can't use hasValue here since  it's not an input element so use hasText
assertThat(forgetPasswordHeader).hasText("Forgot Password");

This will print

actualInputVal==My input
forgetPasswordHeaderActualText==Forgot Password