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# Get Element HTML

Gets the HTML of the specified element

#### Selector

* [Selector](/guides/selectors.md) for the element with text

#### Variable to assign element attribute

* Name of the variable to store the HTML

#### Use blank text if element is missing

* If selected, Browserflow will use an empty string as the value if the element does not exist
  * By default, Browserflow will wait for the element to appear and exit with an error if the element cannot be found
* This is useful when an element appears inconsistently (e.g. when looping through a list of elements where some elements contain a particular piece of data but others don't)