How to get a tooltip text on mouseover using Selenium WebDriver - selenium

Question

I am not able to get tooltip text after mouseover on icon tooltip. I need to get tooltip text,This is html code.
<a class="tooltip" onclick="SocialAuth.showOpenIDLoginWindow('google');_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','LoginForm','google-login','google login was clicked']);" href="javascript:void(0);"><span>We dont store your password or access your contacts on your Google account.</span><img class="social" height="39" width="40" src="/images/login/google.png"/>

Answer 1

The method to get text from a tool tip differs from a HTML one when its a Jquery ToolTip.
getAttribute() does not work when its a Jquery ToolTip. If you see the tooltip example at http://demoqa.com/tooltip/ , its a jquery tooltip.
Following code works here:
WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://demoqa.com/tooltip/");
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[#id='age']"));
Actions toolAct = new Actions(driver);
toolAct.moveToElement(element).build().perform();
WebElement toolTipElement = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".ui-tooltip"));
String toolTipText = toolTipElement.getText();
System.out.println(toolTipText);
A good reference is:
http://www.seleniumeasy.com/selenium-tutorials/how-to-verify-tooltip-text-with-selenium-webdriver-using-java

Answer 2

Use the below line of code for fetching the tool tip text from the Element.
String toolTipText = driver.findElement(By.id(element's id)).getAttribute("title");

Answer 3

You have to use Actions for this. in this am printing the mouse hover message in Google
Actions ToolTip1 = new Actions(driver);
WebElement googleLogo = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[#id='hplogo']"));
Thread.sleep(2000);
ToolTip1.clickAndHold(googleLogo).perform();
Perform mouse hover action using 'clickAndHold' method.
Get the value of Tool tip by using 'getAttribute' command
String ToolTipText = googleLogo.getAttribute("title");
Assert.assertEquals(ToolTipText, "Google");
Thread.sleep(2000);
System.out.println("Tooltip value is: " + ToolTipText);