I am very new to web automation and watir-webdriver. i am trying a script to launch a web and submit the login form. I was able to identify the username and password text fields with the 'id' tag. but the login button doesn't have any of the id, name, text and value keys. i have tried looking all the sources, they all have atleast any one key to search the button. but as i am not seeing that in my web application, could someone help me how to search the button and click it.
Here's a portion of the HTML from the page where the button is identified
<jl-button-bar class="margin-bottom centered ng-scope">
<button class="primary full jl-button ng-scope" type="submit" tabindex="0">
<ng-transclude>
<span class="ng-scope">Login</span>
</ng-transclude>
</button>
</jl-button-bar>
It is hard to tell what is unique about the button without seeing the entire page. However, assuming there is only one login button, you can probably do:
browser.button(text: 'Login').click
If the application supports multiple languages, you might not want to use the text. If there is only the login form, you can probably do:
browser.button(type: 'submit').click
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(Click for image) I am working on an project to write a scenario to test login feature. For some reason capybara is not accessing dynamic elements.
Steps to Reproduce:
1) visit Redfin.com(for example)
2) click on Sign in button
3) a dynamic popup dialog appears
4) click on "continue with email" and try and enter details and clicking on submit.
I am not able to find any of the elements with find(#) and inturn not able to click on submit or enter details.
Also I believe the webapp is build with React.
Please do let me know how to handle this.
<div class="emailSignInButtonWrapper" style="position: relative;">
<button class="button Button tertiary emailSignInButton v3" type="button" tabindex="0" data-rf-test-name="submitButton">
<span>
<span class="signInText">Continue with Email</span>
</span>
</button>
None of the elements you are talking about have ids so a CSS find using #<id> (find('#my_button').click) isn't going to work. However to click that button you should just be able to do
click_button('Continue with Email') # case of the text matters
or
click_button(class: 'emailSignInButton')
This all assumes you are using a driver with Capybara that supports JS - https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara#drivers
Here's code that shows it works if using a JS capable driver
require 'capybara/dsl'
require 'selenium-webdriver'
session = Capybara::Session.new(:selenium_chrome)
session.visit "https://www.redfin.com"
session.click_link('Sign In', href: nil)
session.click_button('Continue with Email')
Here's what worked for me on the redfin site:
scenario "bring up signup form on redfin" do
visit 'https://www.redfin.com'
find('a', :text => 'Sign In').click
click_button('Continue with Email')
end
I'm experiencing a problem ONLY in Chrome where an Ajax response is not being displayed. Oddly, when I hover over the page's main menu, the response shows up and also stays when I move the mouse away again from the main menu.
Here is a more specific description:
The page contains a search box that allows the user to start typing a contact name. As the user types, an ajax request is made to return a list of suggested contacts. The user can then click on a radio button corresponding to a contact in that list to display all the contact information of that one person. Up to that point everything works fine. But now if the user goes back to the search box to change his search, the previously returned list of contacts goes away, but the new one from the new search does not show up. It is the click on the radio button that causes the following search not to display any ajax responses. The odd thing now is that the response does show up if the user hovers over the main menu at the top of the page (which uses css), and it also stays if the user moves the mouse away again from the menu and everything works fine afterwards. Here is the page structure:
<div id="fixedTopBar">
<?php
include("include/mainMenu.php");
?>
</div>
<div id="pageContent">
<div id="contactListContainer">
<form>
<input id="contactSearchBox" type="text" autocomplete="off" onkeyup="showHint(this.value, 'contactList', null , 'include/ajax/getContacts.php')">
</form>
<div id="contactList">
<form>
<?php
echoAllContacts(getContactsFromDatabase());
?>
</form>
</div>
</div>
<div id="profile"></div>
The ajax request is made with the showHint() function in the id="contactSearchBox" input, and the response is displayed within the id="contactList" div.
So in short, the click on a radio button causes the problem, and hovering over the top menu solves the problem (very strange no?).
Please let me know what other code you need to track down the problem if you have any ideas, or if anything I said did not make sense.
Thanks in advance!
I was able to solve my problem with some css:
The id="contactListContainer" div was positioned: fixed ...once I positioned it absolute, the problem was gone. Now, to actually position it fixed and not have the problem, I also had to add the position:fixed or position:absolute property to the child div id="contactList".
I've a jquery model dialg box below. When user clicks on one of the link on page, the dialog box appears with Captcha. When user enters the invalid captch the captch image should be refreshed and should show new text. But this is not happening. Below is the code snippet:
<div id="model">
<img id="captchaImage" src="#Url.Content("~/CaptchaImage.ashx?text=" + ViewBag.EncryptedCaptcha)" />
<input id="captchText" type="text" value="" />
Validate
</div>
When user clicks on Validate, the text is sent to MVC controller via $.getJSON. The controller returns back isCpatchValid and encryptedText wrapped in JSON object Captcha. I've a done below if
the captcha text is not valid:
$("#captchaImage").attr("src", "~/CaptchaImage.ashx?text=" +
Captcha.encryptedText);
On Chrome debugger I can see the controller is returning a correct encrypted text. But this line above doesn't deem to fresh the captch image. I suspect this is due to async call.
COuld someone please help me with how to refresh the captcha image on Jauery Dialog box.
You can't use the "~" feature in javascript. That's a .NET thing. You'll need to wrap it around a .NET call, like:
attr("src", "#Url.Content("~/CaptchaImage.ashx")?text=" + Captcha.encryptedText)
Or if this JS is in a separate file, you can define a variable back on the view, then use it in the JS file, like:
** in the view **
var CAPTCHA_IMAGE_URL = "#Url.Content("~/CaptchaImage.ashx")";
** in the JS file **
attr("src", CAPTCHA_IMAGE_URL + "?text=" + Captcha.encryptedText)
I have a particularly difficult form that I am trying to click the search button and can't seem to do it. Here is the code for the form from the page source:
<input type="image" name="" src="http://images.example.com/WOKRS53B4/images/search.gif" align="absmiddle" border="0" onclick="return check_form_inputs('UA_GeneralSearch_input_form','search');" title="Search" alt="Search" class="">
I am trying to do the standard mechanize click action:
login_page = agent.click(homepage.link_with(:text => "Search"))
Is this because the button uses javascript? If so, any suggestions?
I struggled with this too, especially since my form had multiple buttons.
There are multiple ways to submit a form (with many using a 'form_with' block), but this helped me:
# get the form
form = agent.page.form_with(:name => "my-form")
# get the button you want from the form
button = form.button_with(:value => "Search")
# submit the form using that button
agent.submit(form, button)
See more info here
Also, make sure you upgrade to the latest mechanize. I was using mechanize 1.x, which was giving me "undefined method" errors for the code above.
It is not a link, it is a button. What you need to do is look for the form (for example, with form_with) and then look for the ImageButton and submit it.
button = form.button_with(value: 'Search')
form.click_button(button)
I am having a strange issue in Firefox 3.5.2 with F5 refresh.
Basically, when I focus on an input field and hit f5 the contents of that input field gets copied to the next form field after the F5 refresh.
But, if you inspect the HTML source code, the values are correctly loaded.
I am not having this issue in IE8 or Safari 4.0.3.
The problem does not occur if I do a hard refresh or run window.location.refresh(true).
After F5 Refresh: http://i805.photobucket.com/albums/yy339/abepark/after.jpg
Here's an overview of what's going on.
I believe the thing you should look into is the autocomplete attribute,
you should set it to off on the input box. However be careful since this will trigger two effects.
When you refresh the page it won't remember the old values
The default dropdown of the already used values on that input box will also be disabled.
If you want to keep the second behavior you should set the autocomplete attribute back to on with JS.
Browsers can remember form field contents over a refresh. This can really throw your scripting off if it is relying on the initial value of a field matching what's in the HTML. You could try to prevent it by calling form.reset() at the start.
Different browsers have different strategies for detecting when a form or a field is the same as in the previous page. If you have clashing names, or names that change on reload, it is very possible to end up confusing them. Would have to see some code to work it out for sure.
In the backend, I am using ASP.NET MVC 1.0 with the Spark View engine. When I examine the source code after an F5 refresh in Firefox 3.5.2, the page renders correctly; however, if you look at the page visually the adjacent form field field gets populated with the value from the previous field.
I included enough code so you can just get an idea of what I'm trying to do.
Again, the rendering is fine and the final view/HTML code is fine. It's what I see on the screen that is incorrect. I am using hidden vars; but the issue occurred before using it as well.
Note in the code below, I have 2 distinct ID fields: "date_{projectTask.ProjectTaskId}" and "finishDate_{projectTask.ProjectTaskId}, which gets renders to something like "date_1" and "finishDate_2".
<table>
<for each="ProjectTask projectTask in projectTasksByProjectPhase">
<input type="hidden" value="${projectTask.ProjectTaskId}" />
<tr>
<td class="date">
<div class="box">
<div class="datefield">
<input type="text" id="date_${projectTask.ProjectTaskId}" value="${startDate}" /><button type="button" id="show_${projectTask.ProjectTaskId}" title="Show Calendar"><img src="~/Content/yui/assets/calbtn.gif" width="18" height="18" alt="Calendar" ></button>
</div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div class="box">
<div class="datefield">
<input type="text" id="finishDate_${projectTask.ProjectTaskId}" value="${finishDate}" /><button type="button" id="finishShow_${projectTask.ProjectTaskId}" title="Show Calendar"><img src="~/Content/yui/assets/calbtn.gif" width="18" height="18" alt="Calendar" ></button>
</div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</for>
</table>
FYI: ${} are used to output variables in the Spark View engine.
I am also using the YUI 2.7 Connection to make Ajax calls to update the datebase for "change" and "enter/tab key press" events. I am able to verify that the AJAX calls are made correctly and the form field values are still valid.
The problem occurs when I just do a F5 refresh; for some reason, the "finishDate_1" gets populated with the value from "date_1".
This problem occurs just by clicking on "date_1" and hitting F5; so, the adjacent field just gets populated even if there are no AJAX calls.
Here's the Javascript code I call towards the end of the body"
YAHOO.util.Event.onDOMReady(
function() {
var idList = YAHOO.util.Dom.getElementsBy(function (el) { return (el.type == 'hidden'); }, 'input');
len = idList.length;
var startDatePickers = new Array();
var finishDatePickers = new Array();
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
var id = idList[i].value
startDatePickers[i] = new DatePicker("date_" + id, "show_" + id, "cal_" + id);
startDatePickers[i].valueChanged.subscribe(updateDate, 'S');
finishDatePickers[i] = new DatePicker("finishDate_" + id, "finishShow_" + id, "finishCal_" + id);
finishDatePickers[i].valueChanged.subscribe(updateDate, 'F');
}
}
}
The form field gets copied over before any Javascript code is processed because I call the Javascript code towards the end of the body after all HTML is rendered. So, I'm guessing it's a refresh issue in Firefox? What do you guys think?
As you can see above, I created my own calender date picker objects which allows you to either enter the date in the text manually or by clicking on a button to view the calendar and select a date. Once you enter or select the date, an AJAX call will be made to update the datebase in the back end.
Thanks everybody for the quick responses.
#Anonymous: whoever you are, you are awesome!
#bobince: thanks for the feedback as well.
I added a dummy form tag with the attribute autocomplete="off" and that solved the problem!
I was scratching my head because I didn't get this issue in Safari 4.0.3 or Internet Explorer 8.
<form action="" autcomplete="off">
<!-- my code -->
</form>
The values were loading correctly in the back end (ASP.NET MVC 1.0/Spark View engine) and the HTML source code reflected this, but the input field values were not getting populated correctly. I was using the YUI Connection Manager and Javascript to support edit-in-place and the date pickers.
I tried changing the XHR call to a GET call instead of POST and the same issue was happening.
Anyway, the problem was that the Firefox was not setting the correct values for the input fields for F5 refreshes.
Again, thanks so much! You guys rock!
All element id's must be unique, if two elements have same id's then that could be reason why Firefox inserts same values to elments that didn't orginally have those values entered.
I had a similar problem related to my question at Input control shows incorrect value, even 'though inspect element shows the right value is there
The problem occurred for me in Firefox, but not Chrome, for some but not all controls on the form, and when I pressed F5, but not ctrl-F5.
The "dummy form" seems to have resolved it for me.