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CHEBURASHKA

Reputation: 1713

How to click an option in an auto-suggest input textfield? Selenium WebDriver

I am running a test using Selenium WebDriver

I have an issue with an input textfield ("Select Source: By Name:"). When I enter a String "ABC Premium News (Australia)" in the textfield, an option would show up. Then I need to click (or select) it. I tried ALL methods w/ fireEvent...no use.

The following is the source code:

driver.get("http://www..."); 
driver.switchTo().frame("mainFrame");
WebElement sourceTitle = driver.findElement(By.name("sourceTitle"));
sourceTitle.sendKeys("ABC Premium News (Australia)"); 
//Now a "combobox-like" option "ABC Premium News (Australia)" shows up...how do I click it?

// I tried fireEvent...it did not help. The following is one of my trials that does not work:
DefaultSelenium sel = new WebDriverBackedSelenium(driver,"http://www....");
sel.type("//input[@id='destination']", "ABC Premium News (Australia)");
sel.fireEvent("//input[@id='destination']", "keydown");
// In addition to keydown, I tried: onclick, onfocus, onblur...

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4098

Answers (1)

Code Enthusiastic
Code Enthusiastic

Reputation: 2847

I know this is not the best one could come up with but still it can be used as temporary workaround.

WebElement sourceTitle = driver.findElement(By.name("sourceTitle"));

WebElement small = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("li#nameExampleSection label + small"));

sourceTitle.sendKeys("ABC Premium News (Australia)"); 

Thread.sleep(5000);

Actions actions = new Actions(driver);

actions.click(small).perform();

Upvotes: 2

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