How to display the similar information in every view? - asp.net-mvc-3

I would like to display the information about user's registration state. It should be displayed on every view, but i consider, that writting this code for about 20 times is a bad idea. By the way, this is the code, it works, i guarantee that:
View/RegistrationInfo:
<table width="95%" border="0" cols="2">
<tr>
<td width="50%" height="124"><h2><strong>Simple Blog </strong></h2></td>
<td width="50%" height="124">
#if (System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
{
using (Html.BeginForm("LogOff", "Account"))
{
<table width="95%" height="86" border="0">
<tr>
<td width="50%" valign="middle">Hello, #System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name</td>
<td width="50%" valign="middle" align = "right"><input type="submit" value="Exit" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
}
}
else
{
using (Html.BeginForm("LogIn", "Home"))
{
<table width="95%" height="86" border="0">
<tr>
<td width="45%" valign="bottom">Login:</td>
<td width="45%" valign="bottom">Password:</td>
<td width="10%"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="45%">
<p>
<input type="text" name="login" />
</p>
</td>
<td width="45%">
<p>
<input type="password" name="password" />
</p>
</td>
<td width="10%" align="left">
<input type="submit" value="Enter" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="45%" valign="top">
#Html.ActionLink("Register", "Register", "Account")
</td>
</tr>
</table>
}
}
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<hr align="left" width="100%" size="2" />
As you can see, this view doesn't require to be strongly typed... and i don't know, should I modify any controllers (because, all information is stored in HTML Context), and how. I tried to call
#Html.RenderAction("RegistrationInfo", "Home");
or
#Html.RenderPartial("RegistrationInfo", "Home");
and every time i receive compile error with message about invalid parametres

While Darin's answer perfectly covers your question, I would point out that registration information seems like it's part of your layout more (master page for the .aspx-inclined) than an actual action.
So what I would do (and indeed, do do) is put it either in the header part of your layout in the top right or under your side menu or something, and let the layout handle all the details of rendering it (with a conditional around it to hide it when you're not logged in, so you don't see it on the login screen).

The following should work:
#Html.Partial("~/Views/Home/RegistrationInfo.cshtml")
Or if you are inside a view of the Home controller simply:
#Html.Partial("RegistrationInfo")
Or if you put this partial in ~/Views/Shared/RegistrationInfo.cshtml you will be able to reference with the shorthand syntax.

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Can't find element using normalize-space(text())

I'm having problems finding the following element with this xpath //label[normalize-space(text())='F. nacimiento:']
HTML DOM
The green element is the one I want to locate using the previous expression. I was able to find the red element with //label[normalize-space(text())='Servicio Decesos:'] and any other element of the same type.
I tried using //label[text()=' F. nacimiento:'] and works fine, but I'm using a loop and a the pattern //label[normalize-space(text())=' + foobar + '] to identify the rest of element.
My guess is something in that text string has a different char code to a whitespace or something like that, but I have no clue how to check that.
Is there a way to know what normalize-space is returning, in order to use it to id the element?
I have a different pattern to id the elements, but I'm pretty stubborn and this is a good chance to learn something new that could come handy in the future to solve similar issues.
I downloaded the html code as requested:
Here is the red fragment
<div class="sis-frame-bg">
<table class="wideBox" align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th width="20%" align="right">
<label for="DTRIES_CODZONA">
<span class="sis-important">*</span> Código postal:</label>
</th>
<td><input name="nombdato_CODZONA_1" type="text" id="DTRIES_CODZONA" size="8" maxlength="8" onblur="seccionDecesos();" value="" data-regexp="_codigoPostal" autocomplete="off"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th width="20%" align="right">
<label for="DTRIES_SERVICOD">
<span class="sis-important">*</span> Servicio decesos:</label>
</th>
<td>
<select name="nombdato_SERVICOD_1" id="DTRIES_SERVICOD" onchange="seccionDescricionServicio();" data-name="Servicio decesos" data-obligatorio="true" data-regexp="_cadena">
<option selected="selected" value="" title="Elegir"> Elegir</option>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="2" align="left">
<div id="datosServicioDecesos">
<!-- ASI261 -->
<!-- ASI261 -->
</div>
</th>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
And the green fragment
<table class="wideBox" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th align="right">
<label for="ASEG_FECHNACI">
<span class="sis-important">*</span> F. nacimiento:</label>
</th>
<td>
<input id="ASEG_FECHNACI" name="fechnaci" type="text" maxlength="10" size="12" class="js-popUpCalendar js-dateformat hasDatepicker" onblur="formatoFecha(this);" data-name="FECHA DE NACIMIENTO ASEGURADO" data-obligatorio="true" title="" value="" data-regexp="_fecha" autocomplete="off">
<img class="ui-datepicker-trigger" src="./ico_calendar.png" alt="..." title="...">
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
You can use the below xpath.
//label[normalize-space(.)='* F. nacimiento:']
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HTML TR and TD alignment

This is what I've done, but I failed to make the alignment same as next picture. Hope someone can help.
<tr>
<td > </td>
<td ><b>Type Description</b></td>
<td align="Center"><b>:</b></td>
<td colspan="3"><input name="txtCAEMGE" value="<%=server.HTMLEncode(StrCAEMDE)%>" type="text" class="NormalInputTextField" size="30" >
<input name="chkHR" type="checkbox"> Tick for disable update from HR system
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td > </td>
<td > </td>
<td colspan="3">
<input name="chkHR2" type="checkbox"> Tick for disable update from HR system
</td>
</tr>
I would experiment with putting both checkboxes inside a single container (e.g. a DIV). If you want to position them as a single entity then it will be easier if they are organised in the DOM this way.
e.g.
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td><b>Type Description</b></td>
<td align="Center"><b>:</b></td>
<td>
<input type="text" value="test value" size="30" >
<div style="display: inline-block;">
<div style="display: block;"><input name="chkHR" type="checkbox"> Tick for disable update from HR system</div>
<div style="display: block;"><input name="chkHR2" type="checkbox"> Tick for disable update from HR system</div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>

Selenium webdriver using TestNG - Cannot locate correct Xpath of input field from label

here i want to fill the input field, but unable to access it by Xpath... Plz Help me out..
and the Code is below....
<table class="detailList" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="labelCol">
<div id="div1">
<div class="pbSubsection">
<table class="detailList" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="data2Col" colspan="2">
<span style="font-Size:12px;">
Process Name
</span>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</td>
<td style="text-align:left;" class="data2Col">
<div id=div2">
<div class="pbSubsection">
<table class="detailList" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="data2Col" colspan="2">
<div id="div3" class="requiredInput">
<div id="div4" class="requiredBlock"></div>
<input name="pName" style="width:50%;" type="text">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
iam trying
WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[text()='Process Name']/preceding::td/div/input[#type='text']"));
ele.sendKeys("PM 001");
But here after preceding i know its wrong.. Plz Help me out with this.......
Here the name attribute value of input and div id's will change dynamically...
so iam trying to find by the label and preceding input tag...
Thanks in Advance
Your XPath is entirely wrong.
//span[normalize-space(text())='Process Name']/ancestor::tr/descendant::input
Is what you are after.
If the name of that input doesn't change, you can simply get it via:
driver.findElement(By.name("pName"));
Your XPath falls over at the first hurdle simply because that span has a lot of whitespacing around "Process Name", so use normalize-space to force it to strip the whitespaces from the text before comparing it.
You are also then falling over at the next stop, preceding ...you are the the span's level here, it's as deep as you can go, there's nothing 'preceding' it in the first place.
//span[normalize-space()='Process Name']//ancestor::tr//div//input[#type='text']

Event delegation in Firefox after Ajax

Below is example html, script and php to submit and reload two forms via jquery ajax. In the real application, the same forms will not be reloaded but a series of forms will be loaded after each is submitted.
In chrome, IE and safari; clicking submit results in the intended ajax request. The server responds as intended. Results (showing post variables for conformation) and new forms are loaded into the page as intended. Those new forms can then be submitted and all is good.
In firefox; everything works as intended until you try to submit the forms that were loaded via ajax. They will not submit. The original forms do work. It is only the ones added via ajax that don't submit.
I am guessing that this is an "event delegation" issue with the way firefox updates the DOM after the ajax. I have read the documentation at http://api.jquery.com/on/ and other places but I am at a loss...
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! My goal is to get this functional in the latest versions of chrome, IE, safari and firefox.
html page with script
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Example Ajax Form Submit</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="results"></div>
<div id="forms">
<div>
<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="ui-widget">
<form>
<tr>
<td width="100"></td><td width="300"></td><td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class=""colspan="3"><h1>Form 1</h1></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Input 1A</td><td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="1A" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><input type="hidden" name="1B" value="Form 1 was submitted" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><button type="submit" >Click Me!</button><input type="submit" value="Submit Form 1" /></td>
</tr>
</form>
</table>
</div>
<div>
<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="ui-widget">
<form>
<tr>
<td width="100"></td><td width="300"></td><td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class=""colspan="3"><h1>Form 2</h1></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Input 2A</td><td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="2A" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><input type="hidden" name="2B" value="Form 2 was submitted" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><input type="submit" value="Submit Form 2" /></td>
</tr>
</form>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#forms").on("submit", "form", function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
$.ajax({
url: "testAjax.php",
type: "POST",
cache: false,
data: $(this).serializeArray(),
success: function(jsonData) {
htmlData = jQuery.parseJSON(jsonData);
$.each(htmlData, function(id, data){
$("#"+id).html(data);
});
},
error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown){
$("#results").html("<p>Somthing went wrong!</p>");
}
});
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
testAjax.php
<?php
$htmlOutput['forms'] =
'<div>
<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="ui-widget">
<form id="login" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" target="_self" action="_self">
<tr>
<td width="100"></td><td width="300"></td><td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class=""colspan="3"><h1>Form 1</h1></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Input 1A</td><td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="1A" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><input type="hidden" name="1B" value="Form 1 was submitted" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><button type="submit" >Click Me!</button><input type="submit" value="Submit Form 1" /></td>
</tr>
</form>
</table>
</div>
<div>
<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="ui-widget">
<form>
<tr>
<td width="100"></td><td width="300"></td><td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class=""colspan="3"><h1>Form 2</h1></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Input 2A</td><td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="2A" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><input type="hidden" name="2B" value="Form 2 was submitted" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><input type="submit" value="Submit Form 2" /></td>
</tr>
</form>
</table>
</div>';
$htmlOutput['results'] =
'<p>Form 1:<br> 1A = ' . $_POST['1A'] . '<br>1B = ' . $_POST['1B'] . '</p>' .
'<p>Form 2:<br> 2A = ' . $_POST['2A'] . '<br>2B = ' . $_POST['2B'] . '</p>';
echo json_encode($htmlOutput);
?>
Open Firebug DOM inspector and verify that your form indeed loaded. I am pretty sure you are not allowed to nest form element directly under table element, and FF is likely simply dropping it.
In general issues like this one are always due to broken HTML. Verify that your HTML is correct. Verify that loaded DOM is what you expect it to be.
Here is how your HTML is being parsed. As expected form has been mangled.

Coldfusion forms and image upload with cffile

I'm learning some Coldfusion, and I'm having trouble with this small form based application I'm building for a coworker.
Here is the first page: http://pastebin.com/aLPYHPsF
As you can see, what I want to do is get the user input and take that input and output it to html. The text stuff works fine, but I can't get the image to upload! What I want to do is have the user click upload, get a confirmation, then click submit and they are sent to the generated html (cfm) page. On the page is a resized version of the image they uploaded.
Please tell me what I'm doing wrong! Right now when "upload" is clicked, the form just dumps.
It's because of you forgot to assign enctype="multipart/form-data" to your first cfform. I've edited some of your coding. Check it out.
<cfset strPath = ExpandPath( "./" ) />
<cfset strPath = GetDirectoryFromPath(GetCurrentTemplatePath()) />
<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td align="center">
<cfform name="ecaform" action="ecagenerator.cfm" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<table style="font-family: arial; font-size: 9pt">
<tr><td height="30px" align="center" colspan="2" style="background-color: #020058; color: #FFFFFF; font-family: arial;">
<b>ECA Newsletter Creation Form</b>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td height="20"></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Earned from:</td>
<td>
<cfinput
type="radio"
name="earnedfrom"
value="UC">
UC
<cfinput
type="radio"
name="earnedfrom"
value="ECA">
ECA
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>First Name:</td>
<td>
<cfinput
name="firstname">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Last Name:</td>
<td>
<cfinput
name="lastname">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Instructor's Name:</td>
<td>
<cfinput
name="instructorname">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Date (MM/DD/YYYY):</td>
<td>
<cfinput
name="date">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sex:</td>
<td>
<cfinput
type="radio"
name="sex"
value="male">
Male
<cfinput
type="radio"
name="sex"
value="female">
Female
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Certificate Type:</td>
<td>
<cfinput
type="radio"
name="certtype"
value="Private">
Private
<cfinput
type="radio"
name="certtype"
value="Recreational">
Recreational
<cfinput
type="radio"
name="certtype"
value="Commercial">
Commercial
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table style="font-family: arial; font-size: 9pt; margin-top: 20 px;">
<tr>
<td>
Upload the photo:
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<cfif isDefined("form.fileUpload")>
<cffile action="upload"
fileField="fileUpload"
destination="#strPath#"
accept="image/*">
<cfimage action="resize"
width="200"
height="200"
source="#strPath##file.serverfile#"
destination="#strPath##file.serverfile#"
overwrite="yes">
<img src="<cfoutput>#file.serverfile#</cfoutput>">
</cfif>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<form enctype="multipart/form-data"
method="post">
<input type="file"
name="fileUpload" /><br /><br />
<input type="submit"
value="Submit"
action="ecagenerator.cfm" />
</form>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table style="margin-top: 20px;">
<tr>
<td>
<cfinput
type="submit"
name="Submit"
value="Submit">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</cfform>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
You might want to look into using <cfdiv> for the image upload section. Basically you want the form for image uploading be inside the <cfdiv>, so that the form is submitted through ajax. Have the image form action post to a previewImage.cfm that uses <cffileupload>, validate with isImageFile() if it is an image file, then use <cfimage> to resize it and display a thumbnail (may use action="writetobrowser"). The easiest way to associate the uploaded image with the parent form would be storing the file path in Session I guess, if you don't want to code up extra Javascript.

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