How to get Tooltip Text in Selenium Webdriver?

We can get the tooltip text in Selenium webdriver with help of the method - getAttribute. The attribute title should be passed as a parameter to this method.

This technique is only applicable if the element has a title attribute.

The tooltip text is the one which gets displayed on hovering the mouse over the element. In the below html code, an element having a tooltip has the attribute title and the value set for title is actually the tooltip text.

The below image shows the menu Coding Ground showing the tooltip text as - Coding Ground - Free Online IDE and Terminal.

Syntax

WebElement m = driver.findElement(By.linkText("Coding Ground"));
String s = m.getAttribute("title");

Example

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
public class ToolTipTxt{
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver",
"C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\geckodriver.exe");
      WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
      //implicit wait
      driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
      //URL launch
      driver.get("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/index.htm");
      // identify element
      WebElement l=driver.
      findElement(By.linkText("Coding Ground"));
      // get title attribute value
      String t = l.getAttribute("title");
      System.out.println("Retrieved tooltip text as :" +t);
      driver.quit();
   }
}

Output