How can i change the visibility of a invisible elements (shown in appium inspector) to true in protractor?

Question

I 'm testing an Angular JS site with protractor and Appium, . The click into the login button isn't working as i have mentionned here The problem with click().

• Is it possible that because visible = false from inspector details?

• In that case how can i change the visibility of a button into true ?

• I get true with that code :

loginbutton.isDisplayed().then(function(result){ console.log(result); });

Answer 1

This was not the origin problem that the click into login button isn't done as i have expected, i solved it by changing the way when clicking into a button in protractor by this way :

browser.actions().mouseMove(loginButton).click().perform();

Here the Origin of the problem.

Hope that this help you.

Answer 2

I believe you can change any attributes using native Javascript. Protractor can run JavaScript in context of some element. Take a look here.

So the answer probably would be like this:

browser
.executeScript("document.querySelector(<yourElementSelectionPath>).setAttribute('visible', 'true')");