For our web application I wrote one selenium script, which is working very fine in my office workstation (which has big screen).
When I execute the same script for the same application in my laptop(which has small screen) it is not able to find the element.
Actually when I open the application in my laptop some elements are visible only when I scroll down the page but those element are visible in big screen without scrolling. Application view is automatically adjust as per the screen.
So, for these application how I can write the selenium script so that it will work any kind of screen ?
What do you mean by "it is not able to find the element"? Which error did it show?
In my own experience with automation, in some specific scenarios, the behavior of the app change when the scrollbar appears (for example, when I try to click on an element, it scrolls down to that element, but "jumps up" to the element above it - this I can reproduce manually.)
Some test scenarios are quite sensitive with scrollbar, for example drag&drop.
You should analyse each failed test separately and find a solution for each case.
Selenium cannot find element that is not visible, you must always check if element is visible and if not scroll to this element.
see this question Scroll Element into View with Selenium
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I'm using Selenium for integration testing of our web app, and it's been working great up until I got far enough down the sidebar menu. Suddently the Create test would fail with org.openqa.selenium.ElementClickInterceptedException: element click intercepted. Other element would receive the click:
The error was very sporadic - order of tests would affect which test class failed - but finally I figured out the reason is that the tooltip from the most recently clicked menu option covers the button I'm trying to click. Not really sure why sending input to form elements (using WebElement:sendKeys() and org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select) does not count as moving the mouse away.
Is there a way to make Selenium work around this, or do we have to turn off tooltips in the test version (for obvious reasons I don't like the idea of running our tests on a custom version of the web app)?
It was suggested that this had already been answered and then my question was closed.
I've looked at all of the links and I don't see an answer there. Please don't close my question unless you're absolutely sure it's been answered.
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I'm writing some Selenium code and need to get the CSS Selector for an item on a page. So I bring up the page and go into Tools mode. It doesn't matter which browser I use - Chrome, FireFox, Edge - when click on the "Pick an element from the page" button (to the left of the Inspector in FireFox) and then click on the item I need the CSS Selector for I see the element in the tools section, but as I'm right-clicking it and choosing Copy->CSS Selector, the table it's in collapses (in a second or two) and I no longer have access to the item I clicked on. I've tried manually expanding the TR in the tools view and drilling down to the TD I need, but the same thing happens.
Anyone know of a way to stop this from happening? I was quick enough to copy a few yesterday but for some reason it seems to be happening faster today and I'm not able to catch it.
Right-clicking the item and choosing Inspect Element was also suggested but that does the same thing. The item shows up in the tools section for about 2 seconds and then the table collapses.
When the element tree collapses, it is a sign that it got updated. This happens, for example, when an iframe's URL or document is changed or the child tree structure gets replaced via JavaScript.
In order to stop this from happening, you can stop the JavaScript execution on the next execution once you see the element you want to inspect. Then you are able to inspect the element using the inspect button.
Firefox
Switch to the Debugger panel.
Once you see the element you want to inspect, click the Pause button or press F8.
Cause the JavaScript execution to stop (e.g. by interacting with the page). You can see that the JavaScript execution is stopped when there is a white overlay on the page and a hint saying Paused at Execution.
Once the execution is stopped, click the Pick an element from the page button in the toolbar or press Ctrl+Shift+C.
Click the element you want to inspect.
Chrome/Edge
Switch to the Sources panel.
Once you see the element you want to inspect, click the Pause script execution button or press F8.
Cause the JavaScript execution to stop (e.g. by interacting with the page). You can see that the JavaScript execution is stopped when there is a hint on the page saying Paused in debugger.
Once the execution is stopped, click the Select an element in the page to inspect it button in the toolbar or press Ctrl+Shift+C.
Click the element you want to inspect.
I found a semi-workable solution. When the item appears in the tools window note it's name before it disappears. Then go to the Search HTML box and type it's name. It still appears and then disappears, but it seems to stay visible longer.
I am working with IE11. After loading my website elements like checkbox, radio button, drop down arrow get automatically hidden then after hover on them they get visible then after click anywhere in page they again get hide. All this element are present and style are applied tested with developer tool but still they was giving problem. Then after check "use software rendering instead of gpu rendering" option from settings->Internet option->Advanced->"use software rendering instead of gpu rendering" everything got ok. Now my website element not getting hide all style applied perfectly. But I doesn't understand why this happen? How this setting fixed issues. Please any idea help!
Hello: I am using Selenium/Java to grab a PDF from a website. The website does not generate them in advance, but only after I clink on a link. When I do, the web server goes away for a few minutes, and then comes back with the content.
I'm using Firefox, and its built-in PDF viewer. When I click on the download link from the main browser window, it opens another window to receive the PDF content. In a few minutes the child window is filled with the PDF content, and all I need to do is click a download button on the Firefox toolbar, and then press a Save button on the confimration dialog. I have done both of these things, successfully, sometimes.
My problem, sometimes occurs when I execute the code to click on the child window's download button...
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("download"));
element.click();
Sometimes, it just doesn't work. The statement:
driver.findElement(By.id("download"))
...never throws an exception, so it appears to always be successful. Yet, the subsequent element.click() will often not produce the expected results.
I've thrown about 100 darts at this problem, but I can't seem to find one that produces consistent results. I've tried introducing delays, calling findElement several times, trying to use the driver on the child window in ways to confirm its connection to that window (all with positive return values), but nothing seems to help make element.click() on the darn download link successfull.
I have found Selenium to be a rock-solid solution, especially when working through the primary window...it never misses a beat, and I'm really quite impressed about that behavior. This is my first Selenium project, and I hoping someone that has used it a bit more, might have a suggestion for this particular problem.
It's hard to answer this question without additional information about how the child window is populated. If the child window is using javascript to add the button to the page and define its behavior (which is likely), then the element could be actually present on the page when you look for it (i.e. no error will be thrown), but it might not be active yet or prepared to be clicked.
It might be a good idea to look at the element definition in the source for the child page to get a better idea of how the button is coded. If you have access to the web developers who designed/implemented the button even better. If you can wait to perform the click action until the button is in the desired state, this should solve the problem.
Additionally if the page is coded using a dynamic framework like Angular, you might be better off using Protractor for testing, which is based off of Selenium, but which is aware of updates in the view as they are occurring.
I'm testing AJAX app using selenium IDE and got many problems on scrolling page.
Some elements can't be interacted with until they are visible.
I saw some articles on web mentioned this can be done by click/mouseOver/focus on the locator but all not working for me.
however, the page does scrolled when I click "Find" button on Selenium IDE to find the locator..
is there any way to simulate the click of Find button?
any suggestions are appreciated, thanks.
It sounds like by visible, you mean actually finished loading. What you can do is for the element you want to interact with, put a command "waitForElementPresent" for the element:
waitForElementPresent | <elementid>
click | <elementid>
Thus, the test will wait for the element to be loaded before the interaction.
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