Yesterday i was working on determining is this link was or not enabled, waiting until enabled in order to click it. I'm using Cucumber + Ruby + Watir + Page-Object gem. The link is very similar to:
<a id="the_link" href="#" disabled="disabled">Proceed with your order</a>
Once you fill some fields, the link is enabled and the source changes to:
<a id="the_link" href="#">Proceed with your order</a>
The idea is to wait until the link is enabled in this way, which works with buttons:
def click_on_link
Watir::Wait.until { self.the_link_element.element.enabled? }
self.the_link
end
...but does not work with the link. I made it work determining if the attribute exists, this way:
def click_on_proceed_form
Watir::Wait.until { !self.the_link_element.element.attribute_value('disabled') }
self.proceed_form_submit
end
Looking for the "enabled?" method at the Watir documentation here or at the Page-Object gem here, it seems that is available for all elements. But looking for the same method in the Watir documentation here, seems it's only available for Buttons, Selects and Inputs.
So, i wonder is there is an "enabled?" method for links (anchors) and, if it exists, how to use it. Can you help clarify this issue, please? Thank you very much!
Watir-webdriver does not support the enabled? method for links. I believe this is because the disabled attribute is not a standard attribute for links.
On the other hand, Watir-classic does support the enabled? method for links. However, it will always return false (again because links cannot be disabled).
Therefore, I think your approach is correct (unless you want to monkey patch the link elements to support the enabled?).
However, you should try to avoid using Watir-webdriver directly where possible. The page-object gem has its own methods for waiting and getting attribute values:
def click_on_proceed_form
wait_until{ !the_link_element.attribute('disabled') }
proceed_form_submit
end
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For what seems to be a simple question I've been on this for a stupidly long time and can't seem to find anything on Google. I have this button I need to click which has no id but a class is included
<button class="filter-case-studies" onclick="initBootpag(filterForContentType('CASE STUDIES', searchHits))" type="button">
<b>CASE STUDIES</b>
(2)
</button>
I've tried using click_on which I now know is only for links and buttons so of course won't work. This is what I have so far:
When(/^I filter the results to only see case studies$/) do
click_on('filter-case-studies')
end
I've also tried page.find('filter-case-studies').click, this too doesn't work.
page.find(:class, 'filter-case-studies').click defualts to :css so this also failed for me.
Is there no way to click an element by the class name in Capybara?
Thanks in advance for the help.
The standard way of doing this in Capybara is
find('button.filter-case-studies').click
In relatively recent versions of Capybara you should also be able to do
click_on(class: 'filter-case-studies')
find('.filter-case-studies').click as recommended here https://robots.thoughtbot.com/write-reliable-asynchronous-integration-tests-with-capybara#find-the-first-matching-element
I had a button that could not be found (Unable to find visible link or button nil with classes [close-modal]) using the methods above.
This worked for me: page.execute_script('$.find(".close-modal")[0].click()')
click_on('.filter-case-studies')
You need the . selector for classes, and # for ids.
Thanks to Mr Schutte for the idea to use . selectors.
I had to use page.find(:class, '.filter-case-studies').click in the end. The absolute navbar got in the way of the button so I then had to include page.execute_script "window.scrollBy(0,500)" to complete the test.
I have setup Appium - Capybara and was able to run automation suites on physical device, but facing issue with few methods
I was able to successfully run Capybara methods like
fill_in field, :with => text
click_button button_text
expect(page).to have_content(text)
But facing issues with below method ( it works on regular chrome on laptop but not on mobile )
page.first(:link, link_text).click
can you please help me to understand if appium capybara supports all the capybara methods or only few of them.
Below is the error message
undefined method `click' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
In the above code, first the link with link_text is being searched on the page. If no link is found then nil is returned.
Thus, to make this code work, we need to wait for the link with the link text to appear on the page and then click it.
So you can use any one of the below mentioned code before clicking the fink
page.should have_content(link_text)
page.find_link(link_text)
If the above code doesn't works then you can also try increasing the default wait time as shown below:
Capybara.default_wait_time = 30
page.should have_content(link_text)
page.first(:link, link_text).click
Capybara.default_wait_time = DEFAULT_WAIT_TIME
DEFAULT_WAIT_TIME for Capybara tests is set in your environment file.
Hope this helps :)
undefined method 'click' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) is telling you that #first isn't returning an element (#first returns immediately with a matching element, or nil if there is none). Is there a reason you are using first rather than find?? If there is only one matching link on the page you should really prefer find over first (in this case find_link), or try to scope to a part of the page where the would only be one link, since it will throw an error explaining why it didn't find the link (rather than returning nil) and also has waiting behavior for elements to show up (first can have the same behavior but it doesn't by default)
I am using Capybara and Selenium for testing my website. I also use with Site Prism for Page Object model. I can make every thing work now, however, I don't understand why sometimes actions with page elements donot work, while using "natively" Capybara work.
For example, I have a Page object:
class MyPage < SitePrism::Page
element :sign_in_link, :css, 'a.signin-link'
element :join_link, :css, "a.join-link"
end
and its implementation:
#mypage = MyPage.new
#mypage.sign_in_link.click
# It works at first, then after some repeated test round, it doesn't work sometimes, with error: NoMethodError <br>
While I use:
find(:css, 'a.signin-link').click #=> always work, but not Page Object model
So, why it happens? Have anyone experienced this problem?
By default site_prism disables Capybaras implicit waiting behavior while finding elements. This means to have the same behavior as your capybara example you would need to do
#mypage = MyPage.new
#mypage.wait_for_sign_in_link
#mypage.sign_in_link.click
You can read more about this in the site_prism README under "Using Capybara Implicit Waits"
Another options is to use site prisms "Load Validations" feature to ensure pages are loaded before starting to click on their elements
Anyone know how to hover over an element in Selenium Ruby Webdriver?
My code is like this:
el = driver.find_element(:css => "#foo")
driver.move_to el # How do I trigger a mouseover event on this element?
I'm using selenium-webdriver gem with Firefox in Linux 32-bit.
I used driver.action.move_to(el).perform which differs ever so slightly from the other answers, so I thought I would include it for completeness sake.
Turns out the answer is:
driver.move_to(el).perform
I forgot the .perform.
This works for me:
driver.mouse.move_to el
You need to use Selenium's Action Builder to access more complex actions like hovering (which is what seanny123's answer is demonstrating).
Also, if you are working with a hover, odds are you will need to dynamically wait for it to display before taking your next action (e.g., using an explicit wait).
I put together an example on how to do this -- you can see the full write-up here.
To hover an element:
driver.action.move_to(element).perform
# e.g.
driver.action.move_to(driver.find_element(css: 'a')).perform
To hover an element at a specific location:
driver.action.move_to(element, mouse_x, mouse_y).perform
# e.g.
driver.action.move_to(driver.find_element(css: 'a'), 100, 100).perform
I'm automating IE with watir, and I want to know what html element(s) are clicked (selected). Can this be done using watir? win32ole? In a last chance, without ruby?
Something like:
Click a button -> button with id=213 and class=btn_class was clicked.
Click a text field -> text field with id=123 and value=my_text was clicked.
Try one of the recorders, Selenium IDE for example.
I'm not sure if I completely understand either, but would a custom function like this work?
def click(item, how, what)
#browser.item(how, what).click
puts "#{item} with #{how}->#{what} was clicked"
end
click("button", ":id", "awesome")
Edit: If you're attempting to identify page elements so that you can then use them in a Watir script, the Developer Toolbar is perfect for this application, much like Firebug for Firefox.
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=18359
Your comment to me & your response to Zeljko appear to contradict each other. If you want to use WATIR for this task, the code above will execute a mouse click and post the information to console. The only other way to get information is to locate the object in WATIR and fish for more details:
object = #browser.button(:name, /myButton/)
object.id
object.title
object.status
object.height, etc.
or
#browser.divs.each do |div|
puts div.id, div.title
end
I'd recommend a strong look at the capabilities of the various developer tools, such as are provided with Chrome, Firefox, and IE. those are generally the best means to get this kind of information.
Watir is really about driving the browser, and getting info out of the DOM. it's not really setup to report on manual interactions with the browser.