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user49126
user49126

Reputation: 1863

Click command doesn't work on a element

We're using this components in our web application.

On the page you can see a toolbar containing some buttons. If you click on any of the buttons it writes a log into the logbar.

The problem is I cannot record this behavior using the Selenium IDE. The IDE creates a command, but when I execute the command nothing happens. Not even an error is logged.

What could be the problem?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 12075

Answers (8)

jerry Li
jerry Li

Reputation: 1

it will take more than 1ms for javascript work . So just add like 'pause 1000'

Upvotes: -2

yash chaurasia
yash chaurasia

Reputation: 39

I don't know this will help but it surely helped me

if there is any text you have to type and then click on any element or button

There are two ways First use "sendKeys" to type then "click" the required element will work. For Eg In flipkart.com "type" doesn't work but "sendKeys" does

Second is Use "type" then press enter instead of click using "sendKeys" in target have the field that you were typing and in value must have "${KEY_ENTER}"

Eg will help you better First Method: The First Method

Second Method: The Second Method

Both Worked for me fortunately

Upvotes: 1

Ripon Al Wasim
Ripon Al Wasim

Reputation: 37826

I visited the site http://www.dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxToolbar/samples/01_init/08_events.html

I got the xpath by using xpath checker as below:

Cut - id('toolbarObj')/x:div[5]/x:div[11]/x:div

Copy - id('toolbarObj')/x:div[5]/x:div[12]/x:div

Paste - id('toolbarObj')/x:div[5]/x:div[13]/x:div

You can use the modified xpath as:

selenium.click("//div[@id='toolbarObj']/div[5]/div[11]/div");//Cut
selenium.click("//div[@id='toolbarObj']/div[5]/div[12]/div");//Copy
selenium.click("//div[@id='toolbarObj']/div[5]/div[13]/div");//Paste

Upvotes: 1

Ripon Al Wasim
Ripon Al Wasim

Reputation: 37826

Here is the full code of doing that:

package riponalwasim.selenium.webdriver.stackoverflow;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class CutCopyPaste {
    WebDriver driver;
    String baseUrl;
    @BeforeClass
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        baseUrl = "http://www.dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxToolbar/samples/01_init/08_events.html";
        driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        driver.get(baseUrl);
    }

    @Test
    public void testCutCopyPaste() throws Exception {
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[text()='New']")).click();
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='toolbarObj']/div[5]/div[11]/div")).click();
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='toolbarObj']/div[5]/div[12]/div")).click();
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='toolbarObj']/div[5]/div[13]/div")).click();
    }

    @AfterClass
    public void tearDown() throws Exception {
        driver.quit();
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

user1425908
user1425908

Reputation: 36

The IDE isn't perfect at recording when javascript has loaded items to the page, so it may need manual assistance.

Have you tried waiting for the element to load before trying to click on it? I might suggest inserting a waitForElementPresent command, like waitForElementPresent | #toolbarObj before trying the click.

Upvotes: 0

Arran
Arran

Reputation: 25076

What about if you click on the img itself instead of the div? E.g:

//img[contains(@src, 'paste')]

When you click on 'Find' on the Selenium IDE, does it actually highlight something on the page?

Upvotes: 0

Rohit Ware
Rohit Ware

Reputation: 2002

Execute your script at slow speed

Use xpath to identify element like

clickAt  | //div[text()='New']

To click New button

Upvotes: 3

Koen Peters
Koen Peters

Reputation: 12916

It could be that the selenium script starts too fast. I guess the component you're using generates a bunch of HTML for all the buttons. If the script starts too early the html might not have been generated yet. Try running the selenium script slower.

Also: I think selenium uses XPath to get to the HTML elements in the page. Are you sure that the selenium script is referring to the correct HTML node? You can check this by looking at the selenium script (it's XML) and look what XPath selector it uses for the button.

What also could be the case is that selenium might not be able to fire click events on non clickable targets (the buttons are divs), but I don't think that is the case. You could try though.

Upvotes: 0

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