When I click on a button:
<input type="button" onclick="document.lista_de_precios.opcion.value='por_categoria';showCat()" value="Por CategorÃa" class="btn btn-mini">
A input type:hidden value is changed to the button name: "por_categoria"
How do I change
<input type="hidden" value="" name="opcion">
to
<input type="hidden" value="por_categoria" name="opcion">
in Ruby Mechanize gem, I already tried using python examples in ruby with no success..
page.form.new_control('hidden','opcion',{'value': 'por_categoria'}
Update:
I investigated a little bit more and:
QUOTE from webpage
Sometimes mechanize won't pick up certain hidden form controls. Since mechanize doesn't pick up these controls, you will need to create them manually in order to get the form submission to work.
I think I will leave this post as is, because I don't know how to create form controls in this ruby code and mechanize.
You can ignore the advice on that page, it's talking about Python mechanize which is a different library (and not a very good one apparently!)
Here's how to do it with ruby mechanize:
form = page.forms[0] # or some other number
form['opcion'] = 'por_categoria'
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I need to create a form that by clicking on it will redirect to another website with special 'inputs' tags values.
something like:
<form action="http://example.com" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="val1" value="something">
<input type="hidden" name="val2" value="else">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Go">
</form>
The custom HTML feature that I find will put it inside an iframe, and it looks bad. Is there a way to do it that will look 'normal'?
If you utilize Wix Code you can develop that inside your Wix page without the need of any html forms.
Simple solution:
- Add the form input elements you need on your page
- Add a button to click on
- Add av event handler to the button and grab the values from the input fields
- Send that data to any site or redirect the user to the site you want using wixLocation.to("url") with the query parameters you might need from the form.
So since the form helpers arent included in laravel anymore. How do we call for a delete method with regular html forms? I can't find nothing about this, every example uses the form helpers..
thanks
Edit: It works using this:
<input name="_method" type="hidden" value="DELETE">
However, a little bit of explanation would be nice.
I have following input's on the page:
<input name="ct99" value="" id="ct99" class="GetData" type="submit">
<input name="ct92" value="" id="ct92" class="GetData" type="submit">
<input name="ct87" value="" id="ct87" class="GetData" type="submit">
class GetData display some click-able icon. When click on it new page is opened. Some JavaScript taking care of it. How can I follow this?
I'm already try code below just to see if scrapy follow inputs, but without success.
def parse(self, response):
sel = Selector(response)
links = sel.xpath("//input[#class='GetData']").extract()
for data in links:
yield scrapy.FormRequest.from_response(response,
formdata={}, callback=self.after_click)
def after_click(self, response):
url = response.url
print '\nURL', url
There are two common ways to approach the problem:
using browser developer tools (Network tab), inspect the requests sent when you click a particular button and then simulate this request using scrapy.Request or scrapy.FormRequest
automate a browser using selenium: locate the button and click it, then grab the .page_source and instantiate a Selector instance, see samples here:
Scrapy with Selenium crawling but not scraping
How to use selenium along with scrapy to automate the process?
So, we have the following code in our page:
<div class="toggle-wrapper">
<input id="HasRegistration_true" class="registration_required toggle" type="radio" value="True" name="HasRegistration" data-val-required="The HasRegistration field is required." data-val="true">
<label for="HasRegistration_true" class="">On</label>
<input id="HasRegistration_false" class="registration_required toggle" type="radio" value="False" name="HasRegistration" checked="checked">
<label class="checked" for="HasRegistration_false">Off</label>
</div>
These are 2 radio buttons. 'On' and 'Off'. 'Off' is the default value.
Using Watir-webdriver and Ruby, we want to select the 'On' radio button. We do so like this:
browser.radio(:id => "HasRegistration_true").set
But in doing so, we get the following error:
`WebElement.clickElement': Element cannot be scrolled into view:[object HTMLInputElement] (Selenium::WebDriver::Error::MoveTargetOutOfBoundsError)
We know Selenium 2 scrolls the page to the element, so trying to scroll down is useless.
We are always using the latest releases of watir-webdriver and ruby.
We can't change the HTML of the page since we're QA engineers.
Here are two solutions that have worked for me:
There is a Ruby gem called watir-scroll that can work.
Then
require 'watir-scroll'
browser.scroll.to browser.radio(:id, "HasRegistration_true")
If you don't want to add a gem, my co-worker suggested something that somewhat surprisingly (to me) had the same effect as the above code:
browser.radio(:id, "HasRegistration_true").focus
browser.radio(:id, "HasRegistration_true").set
In my code, ".focus" scrolled straight to the element that was previously not visible. It may work for you as well.
First of all try locating the element using XPATH:
browser.element(:xpath, "//input[#id='HasRegistration_true']").click
or
alternatively if it is a hidden element you are trying to locate then you are better off using CSS. Download firebug add-on for firefox and copy the CSS path of your element.
It should be something like:
browser.element(:css => "the CSS path you have copied from Firebug").click
One of the 2 should do it for you!!
Best of luck!
You could manipulate the html on the fly by executing some javascript to make the radio element settable. To execute javascript on a page, do something like:
#browser.execute_script("your javascript here")
I used something like the following javascript to strip the class out of a label tag which moved it out of the way of the input tag I was attempting to act on for a Chrome specific problem I had.
execute_script("$(\"label.classname\").removeClass(\"classname inline\")")
If the element is contained within a form and a div (Wrap) class I found that I had to do the following to click the 'No' radio button on the "https://quote.comparethemarket.com/Motor/Motor/AboutYourVehicle.aspx?" page:
div_list = #browser.form(:action => "AboutYourVehicle.aspx?ton_t=CTMMO&prdcls=PC&rqstyp=newmotorquote&AFFCLIE=CM01").div(:class => "inputWrap").divs(:class => "custom-radio")
And then:
div_list[1].click
Hope this solves your issue too :-)
I'm not using watir but I have the same error as you "...could not be scrolled into view ...". I tried to use watir just to solve it and didn't work for me. Then, I use an ActionBuilder (move_to with click) and the error disappeared.
My line to avoid the error is:
#driver.action.move_to(*webelement*).click.perform
I hope it will be useful for you
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)