[FIXED] how to get the readonly field value using selenium

Issue

I have read only field on Webpage as

<div id="dspIdDescriptionDet-inputEl" class="x-form-display-field" role="input" aria-invalid="false" data-errorqtip="" style="width: 100%;">2010-RR3 XIIIA9 20360726 FLT</div>

When I'm trying to get the display value ("2010-RR3 XIIIA9 20360726 FLT") using getText() or getAttribute("Value") using Webdriver, its fetching nothing.

error on eclipse:

expected:<2010-RR3 XIIIA9 20360726 FLT> but was:<null>

code:

driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='dspIdDescriptionDet-i‌​nputEl']")).getAttri‌​bute("value"))

Solution

Moving my comment to an answer since it turned out to be the issue...

I would try adding a wait. It may be that the element is present but it takes a bit for the data to populate into the field.

Answered By - JeffC