I am trying to clear browser cache, for which i need to click on clear data button of browser setting popup, but, i am not able to write xpath for the button on chrome browser
i have tried inspecting the element to find out if the button is on a iframe but its not in iframe, so i have decided to try it with an with out iframe snippet, either of ways the element is not traces out in dom
public void clearBrowserCache() throws InterruptedException{
driver.get("chrome://settings/clearBrowserData");
Thread.sleep(2000);
System.out.println(driver.getWindowHandles());
String windowIds=driver.getWindowHandle();
// driver.switchTo().frame(windowIds);
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(
[id=clearBrowsingDataConfirm]")).click();
}
Expected is that i should be able to click on the clear data button
Actual is that i am not able to find out the xpath for of the emlement
Depending on which version of chrome you are using, this could work:
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("* /deep/ #clearBrowsingDataConfirm")).click();
However the /deep/ combinator is deprecated, so it may not work on newer Chrome's versions.
I answered how to reach inside the Shadow DOM in an other question.
You can read the whole thing at the link, but the basics are you create a "starting point" WebElement at the Shadow DOM via JavaScript, then all future look-ups reference it:
WebElement button = startingPoint.findElement(By.cssSelector("..."));
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I am using selenium 3.9.1 and java to automate testing of a web application. The web application has some dynamic content based on pressing of a button for example. The page refreshes whenever this button is clicked. A java script runs on button click and updates the DOM I think. At this time, when I try to access the button (which is visible on the page), I get a staleElementReferenceException.
Does Selenium automatically reload the DOM once it is changed? I am relatively new to selenium. I have researched into this and I have tried to refresh the page using driver.navigate().Refresh() to try to see whether this will solve the problem. It does not solve the issue.
Any pointers will be deeply appreciated.
Since the page has been refreshed, the button reference you have is to the button on the old page that no longer exists.
I'd say you need to get a new reference to the button on the refreshed page (eg call FindElementById).
If the page is refreshed all the items in the DOM are now stale. What this means is that all items found before the button press will have to be found again. Any attempts to use those items will more than likely be treated with a stale element exception.
However, if the button click mearilly affects items on the page without having to ask the webserver to give you a new page you could interact with the old items.
You could do something like this:
public void SaveAndAgainClick() throws Exception{
try{
clicksaveButton(); //method to click save button
WebElement someValue = driver.findElement(By.xpath("(//input[#name='someValue'])[1]"));
someValue.click();
}catch (StaleElementException e){
WebElement someValue = driver.findElement(By.xpath("(//input[#name='someValue'])[1]");
someValue.click();
}
}
If findElement gets staleElementError while looking for (//input[#name='someValue'])[1] then it will again try one more time in the catch block and most certainly find the element and clicks on it. Your test will pass if you follow this approach.
Here are the answers to your questions :
A java script runs on button click and updates the DOM I think : If you inspect the HTML of the element through Development Tools / Inspect Element the element attributes will reveal it all.
Consider the following HTML :
<input value="Click me" onclick="alert('Click!')" type="button">
In the given HTML as per the onclick attribute of this element, if you invoke click() method on the WebElement, an alert would be generated. Similarly the onclick attribute may invoke a JavaScript or Ajax which may bring-in/phase-out new/old elements from the HTML DOM
At this time, when I try to access the button I get a staleElementReferenceException : In this case you should induce WebDriverWait for the WebElement to be interactive before attempting to interact with the element. Else you may face either of the following exceptions :
StaleElementReferenceException
WebDriverException
ElementNotInteractableException
InvalidElementStateException
Does Selenium automatically reload the DOM once it is changed? Short answer, Yes it does.
Refresh the page using driver.navigate().refresh() : No invoking driver.navigate().refresh() wouldn't be a optimum solution as it may not invoke the intended JavaScript or Ajax properly. Hence the intended WebElement may not be interactive in a optimum way.
I am unable to click on Website hyperlink, the click goes to Recently used pages.
Tried with CSS locator of Website icon [which works in the lower environment as it doesn't have Recently used pages] reference in it.
Tried with XPath Locator[including custom XPath], still, the click goes to another item.
Tried name locator.
Used Actions class for clicking.
Allowed the page to load completely by using sleep and WebDriver wait.
Located the element and send Enter keys, still Recently used pages is clicked.
Tried to click it using coordinates.
Thought of ChromeDriver issue but the issue persists in Firefox too.
Tried below XPath:
html/body/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/a/div
//div[2]/div/a/div
Code snippet:
WebElement elementToClick = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".icon.siteadmin"));
elementToClick.click();
WebElement elementToClick = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".icon.siteadmin"));
(JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("window.scrollTo(0,"+elementToClick.getLocation().x+")");
elementToClick.click();
WebElement elementToClick = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".icon.siteadmin"));
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(elementToClick);
actions.click().perform();
Actions builder = new Actions(driver);
builder.moveToElement(elementToClick, 40, 207).click().build().perform();
Result: It clicks on Recently Used Pages, and it yields a result of Recently used pages instead of Website.
UI Reference
Development Code Snippet
Hope It Helps you:
.//div[#id='box_2']/a/div[#class='icon siteadmin']/div[1]
Try the following:
driver.findElement(By.XPath(“//a[contains(#title, ‘Websites’)]”)).click()
If this doesn’t work use the above XPath in combination with one of the moves to element paths above and then use click.
Go to this URL: https://sports.ladbrokes.com/en-gb/
Click on "JOIN NOW" at the top right of the window
It opens a window pop up, where I need to enter 'First name' and other info
Though the 'First name' input box has the input tag with name attribute in the DOM, I am not able to find it with usual way. Please suggest!
When I say usual way, something straight forward like below is not working:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[#name='firstname']"));
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[#placeholder='First name']"))
It's an iframe which means you have to switch to the iframe first before you can locate elements there.
this is untested but something similar to this
driver.switchTo().frame("lightbox-registration-frame")
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[#name='firstname']"));
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[#placeholder='First name']"))
driver.switchTo().defaultContent(); // <- important if need to switch back to original window
You may also need to use a wait to allow the iframe to appear/load. I noticed it took a second or 2 to load so if you try to switch immediately you'll end up with an unable to find iframe exception.
Also note that in my example i used "lightbox-registration-frame" to find the iframe which may not necessarily be correct. Generally you want to use the name or id of the iframe which i didn't see so you may need to use an index or some other method to find the iframe.
First you have to enter into the iframe and then locate the fields. try below code it works for you:
WebDriver driver= new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("https://sports.ladbrokes.com/en-gb/");
// click on the Join now button
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//[#id='loginSubmit']/div[3]/button[2]")).click();
//find Locator of frame
WebElement frampath= driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//iframe[(#class='lightbox-registration-frame')]"));
//switch to frame for operations
driver.switchTo().frame(frampath);
driver.findElement(By.name("firstname")).sendKeys("fdf");
// more operations
//statement1 (operation you want to perform)
//statement2(operation you want to perform)
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
//Switch to main page
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
I am writing an automated test and want to report bugs, if occur, directly in the repo at GitHub. The step which fails in my program is the Submit new issue button from GitHub Issue Tracker.
Here is the code:
WebElement sendIssue = driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[5]/div/div/div[2]/div[1]/div/form/div[2]/div[1]/div/div/div[3]/button"));
sendIssue.click();
And the exception:
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Element is not clickable at
point (883, 547.7999877929688). Other element would receive the click:
div class="modal-backdrop"></div
The following command also does not work:
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].click();", sendIssue);
How can I make it clickable? Is there any other way by which I can resolve this issue?
This is happening because when selenium is trying to click ,the desired element is not clickable.
You have to make sure that the Xpath provided by you is absolutely right.If you are sure about the Xpath then try the following
replace
WebElement sendIssue = driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[5]/div/div/div[2]/div[1]/div/form/div[2]/div[1]/div/div/div[3]/button"));
sendIssue.click();
with
WebElement sendIssue =(WebElement)new WebDriverWait(DRIVER,10).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("/html/body/div[5]/div/div/div[2]/div[1]/div/form/div[2]/div[1]/div/div/div[3]/button")));
sendIssue.click();
If that doesn't work ,You will get an Timeout exception, In that case try incaresing the timeout amount from 10 to 20.
If it still doesn't work please post a screenshot of the HTML.
You need to write something in the issue title and description to make the issue clickable are you sure you are not making that mistake of clicking the button without writing anything in those places I am adding screenshot for your convenience.
Selenium Webdriver introduced in a previous version (v2.48) a new behavior that prevent clicks on elements that may be overlapped for something else (a fixed header or footer - for example) or may not be at your viewport (visible area of the webpage within the browser window).
You can see the debate here.
To solve this you will need to scroll (up or down) to the element you're trying to click.
One approach would be something like this post:
Page scroll up or down in Selenium WebDriver (Selenium 2) using java
Another, and maybe more reasonable, way to create a issue on Github, would be using their API. Maybe it would be good to check out!
Github API - Issues
Gook luck.
This worked for me. Instead of HTML browser this would be useful if we perform intended Web Browser
// Init chromedriver
String chromeDriverPath = "/Path/To/Chromedriver" ;
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", chromeDriverPath);
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--headless", "--disable-gpu", "--window-size=1920,1200","--ignore-certificate-errors");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
I'm having some issues trying to test elements inside a RichFaces modal panel, as the one
in the demo page of RichFaces here
the issue is that once retrieved an element I cannot interact with it because WebDriver throws a ElementNotVisibleException.
I check it with firebug, and it appears greyed out, because some of the divs have height and width set to 0.
I tried to set all the divs manually with a height and size to see if it changes but there is no way to make it work, so I suppose there must be something else affecting the visibility of the modal panel, but cannot find what.
Has anyone tested webdriver or selenium against a richfaces panel?
Thanks in advance.
Edit:
For the code, is too much to put here, but basically I adapted the jbehave tutorial for the etsy website (the one using spring to inject dependencies), that can be found here.
The architecture is using a PropertyWebDriverProvider that is configured by maven properties to use InternetExplorer or Firefox and is using PageObject pattern (all the pages extend from WebDriverPage).
For specific code, the one from JimEvans gives me the same error.
The following code seems to work for me using the demo site you linked to in your question. It gets the text content of the modal panel, then clicks the "button" to close the panel.
public void testPanel() {
WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
driver.get("http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/richfaces/modalPanel.jsf?c=modalPanel");
WebElement panelShow = driver.findElement(By.id("j_id352:link"));
panelShow.click();
WebElement panel = driver.findElement(By.id("j_id352:panelCDiv"));
WebElement panelTextElement = panel.findElement(By.className("rich-mpnl-body"));
System.out.println(panelTextElement.getText());
WebElement panelCloseButton = panel.findElement(By.id("j_id352:hidelink"));
panelCloseButton.click();
}
Only solution I found out was to do all the interaction with javascript through webdriver