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Reputation: 464

Create WebElement in Selenium

I am trying to create a WebElement object. I saw that there is a IWebElement interface which i could implement.

I also saw this question and did't manage to implement it sucessfully.

In my usecase I get from a webpage all forms and then take the one with the most input tags which haven't got the type attribute set to hidden. this is my usecase code:

using System;
using System.Linq;

using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;

namespace AutoWinner
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
            driver.Url = "https://keepass.info/help/kb/testform.html";
            var forms = driver.FindElements(By.TagName("form"));

            var longestFormLengthOfAllForms = 0;

            // I don't the p element. 
            // It's more here to just get a webElement which ic can later overwrite.
            var mainForm = driver.FindElement(By.TagName("p"));
            foreach (var form in forms)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(form.GetAttribute("outerHTML"));
                var children = form.FindElements(By.TagName("input"));
                var lengthOfCurrentForm = children.Count(x => x.GetAttribute("type") != "hidden");
                if (lengthOfCurrentForm > longestFormLengthOfAllForms)
                {
                    longestFormLengthOfAllForms = lengthOfCurrentForm;
                    mainForm = form;
                }
            }

            Console.WriteLine(mainForm.GetAttribute("outerHTML"));
        }
    }
}

The line var mainForm = driver.FindElement(By.TagName("p")); is meant to be a global variable where later save my main form in it. I don't need the p element.

my Idea was to remove by creating a standard webElement.

How could i get rid of it or improve it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5161

Answers (2)

JeffC
JeffC

Reputation: 25714

Given your current usecase, I would suggest the code below. It grabs the FORM tags, loops through each one and counts the INPUTs that aren't type='hidden'. Once it falls out of the for-each, mainForm is the FORM with the largest number of desired INPUTs.

IWebElement mainForm = null;
IReadOnlyCollection<IWebElement> forms = Driver.FindElements(By.CssSelector("form"));
int maxCount = 0;
foreach (IWebElement form in forms)
{
    int count = form.FindElements(By.CssSelector("input:not([type='hidden'])")).Count;
    if (count > maxCount)
    {
        maxCount = count;
        mainForm = form;
    }
}

// do something with mainForm
Console.WriteLine(mainForm?.GetAttribute("name"));

I tested this with the sample HTML page I created, below

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
    <title></title>
</head>

<body>

<table border="1">
<tr><td>
<form name="form1">
<p>Field1:<br><input type="text"></p>
<p>Field2:<br><input type="hidden"></p>
<p>Field3:<br><input type="hidden"></p>
<p>Field4:<br><input type="hidden"></p>
<p>Field5:<br><input type="text"></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</td></tr>

<tr><td>
<form name="form2">
<p>Field1:<br><input type="text"></p>
<p>Field2:<br><input type="hidden"></p>
<p>Field3:<br><input type="text"></p>
<p>Field4:<br><input type="hidden"></p>
<p>Field5:<br><input type="text"></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</td></tr>

<tr><td>
<form name="form3">
<p>Field1:<br><input type="text"></p>
<p>Field2:<br><input type="text"></p>
<p>Field3:<br><input type="text"></p>
<p>Field4:<br><input type="hidden"></p>
<p>Field5:<br><input type="text"></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</td></tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

Upvotes: 3

cruisepandey
cruisepandey

Reputation: 29382

I still do not get your use case. But anyway if you are looking for something like this :

Let's say you have two web element like this : 

var ele1 = driver.FindElement(By.Xpath("//"));

var ele2 = driver.FindElement(By.Xpath("//"));

ele1 is pointing to one element, whereas ele2 is pointing to second element.

ele2 = ele1

Now, ele2 should point to ele1.

Not sure if you are looking for the same thing. Can't add this much as comment also.

Upvotes: 0

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