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Luke Quinane
Luke Quinane

Reputation: 16615

Unit testing the MS AJAX Toolkit HTML editor

Is it possible to unit test the MS AJAX Control Toolkit's HTML Editor? I've tried Watin, WebAii and Selenium without any success...

Watin

I can find the textbox related to the control but I get an exception trying to access it:

using (Browser ie = new IE()) {
    ie.GoTo(testUri);
    Assert.IsTrue(ie.ContainsText("Expected text"));

    var textBox = ie.TextField(Find.ById(id => id.Contains("Editor")));
    textBox.TypeText("testing 123");
}

System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Can't move focus to the control because it is invisible, not enabled, or of a type that does not accept the focus.

Selenium

I tried the Selenium IDE also without any success. When I loaded ASP.net's sample page, typed some text into the editor and clicked the "Submit" button here is the test case it made:

[Test]
public void TheUntitledTest() {
    selenium.Open("/AJAX/AjaxControlToolkit/Samples/HTMLEditor/HTMLEditor.aspx");
    // Text was typed at this point
    selenium.Click("ctl00_SampleContent_submit");
}

Here is the log messages from rerunning the recorded actions in the Selenium IDE:

[info] Executing: |open | /AJAX/AjaxControlToolkit/Samples/HTMLEditor/HTMLEditor.aspx | |

[info] Executing: |click | ctl00_SampleContent_submit | |

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1702

Answers (1)

Bruce McLeod
Bruce McLeod

Reputation: 1382

Looking the control it is an IFrame where the editor is actually an editable body

<body contentEditable="true">

You should be able to update the inner text with javascript using the

IE.Frame(Find.BySrc(frameSrc)).Eval( ... javascript goes here ... );

command in watiN then click the button.

Another approach would be to do a mouse move, then click, then send keys.

Upvotes: 1

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