getText() on input is not returning text

Question

I have a confusion regarding getText() in selenium. below given is the web page snippet.

 <input checked name=servClass type=radio 

 value="Coach">

  <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Economy class <br>

  <input 

  name=servClass type=radio value="Business">

  Business class <br>

 <input 

  name=servClass type=radio value="First">

  First class</font></font></td>

  </tr>

I am trying to print the radio button text using the below snippet.

 List<WebElement> list1 = driver.findElements(By.name("servClass"));

 list1.get(1).click();

    for (int i=0;i<=2;i++) 

    {

        System.out.println(list1.get(i).getText());

    }

This code doesn't print the texts. Could anyone suggest whats wrong in this?

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Answer 1

getText() returns the innerText held by the element

<div id='someid'>
someText
</div>

But input tag can not hold anything. It is not designed for that purpose. It is called void element.

Input does NOT work this way to use getText()

<input id='someid'> text </input>

As input holds the text in the value attribute,you need to use getAttribute("value")

<input id='someid' value='text'/>

getText() on input is not returning text

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