I have rspec tests using Capybara which work great locally and on browserstack with a configuration of OS X Mavericks/Chrome 33 on browserstack.
When I change the configuration to Windows 7 / IE 10 I'm getting an ElementNotVisibleError on the last line of code represented here:
find('#myIdToExpandMyList').click
#click selected one
find(:xpath, "//SomeXPATHToRepresentAValueInMyList", :visible => :all).click
What is happening (I can see due to screenshots) is that the first line of code is not working. For some reason the click on this element is not working.
Here is an image of the expand (+)
When the user clicks on the plus sign the items in the list appear. Since the click isn't working the items never appear and the last line of code above doesn't work. Why doesn't this find/click work in IE 10 (with Selenium Webdriver)?
Here is the html code behind the expand:
<a id="myIdToExpandMyList" href="javascript:SomeJavscriptCallToExpandWithValues(params)">
<img src="plussign.png" alt="Expand">
</a>
UPDATE: In looking at this further this appears to be related to modal dialogs. In my case I have a modal dialog opening (z-index is set and the rest of the page is not reachable). For some reason (only in IE) I can't click on a link on the modal dialog using a capybara find(element).click. It seems to find the element otherwise I believe I would get an error on that.
Second UPDATE: After trying all sorts of things (falling back to selenium, different IE versions, native clicks, nothing worked. The only thing that worked was executing the javascript via execute_script. The plus sign (href) triggers a javascript function which opens the list - I called it directly. I do not like this solution so hopefully someone has a better one.
I am replying on behalf of BrowserStack.
I understand for your tests on IE 10, the logs show that the expand(+) button was clicked successfully. However, the click did not initiate the action (expand menu) it was supposed to. Thus, the subsequent actions failed.
As you have mentioned, you are able to run tests locally on your machine. Could you drop us an email with following details:
IEDriver version you use locally
Exact version of the IE browser you test on
Selenium Jar version
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I'm writing a code using Selenium and Chromedriver to remotely control my instagram.
I've managed to login to the platform however as soon as I do a pop up asking about activating notifications appears and my codeflow breaks because it can no longer click the elements of the instagram page.
this is the code I tried using (which works during login to click the "send" button
notifBtn= self.browser.find_element_by_css_selector('button')
notifBtn.click()
(since it's the first instance of button on the web code it should automatically select that one)
however this time the browser is stuck and doesn't do anything.
during the login I had a problem where it wouldn't click either and found that it was because there was a lag between the request to go to the instagram login page and loading the page so it could find the CSS elements. I fixed it by adding
time.sleep(2)
before inputting the data and it fixed. I thought something similar would work here as it doesn't load instantly but it made no difference.
Is this an issue with the selector, as in could I use xpath to get around it? anyways sorry if it's a bit vague and feel free to ask me about my code or whatever.
notifBtn= self.browser.find_element_by_css_selector('button')
notifBtn.click()
I expect Chromedriver to click don't activate in the pop up so the code can continue instead I get stuck on that screen
Your find_element_by_css_selector call is probably locating multiple elements, and doesn't know which one to click. I would use an XPath here, to be more explicit about which button you are trying to click:
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
# Wait for button to exist
not_now_button = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[text()='Not Now']")))
# Click the button
not_now_button.click()
Upon typing xpath in fire-path text field, if x-path is correct then it'll display the corresponding HTML code. It was working fine previously.
But now it's not displaying the corresponding HTML code even though the xpath is correct.
Can anyone help me to find the solution for this problem? I even uninstalled fire-path and installed again but still, it's not working.
If you visit the GitHub Page of FirePath, it clearly mentions:
FirePath is a Firebug extension that adds a development tool to edit, inspect and generate XPath expressions and CSS3 Selectors
Now if you visit the home page of FireBug, it clearly mentions that :
The Firebug extension isn't being developed or maintained any longer. We invite you to use the Firefox DevTools instead, which ship with Firebug.next
So the direction is clear that we have to use DevTools [F12] which comes integrated with the Mozilla Firefox 56.x + releases onwards.
Example Usage :
Now, let us assume we have to identify the xpath of the Search Box on Google Home Page.
Open Mozilla Firefox 56.x browser and browse to the url https://www.google.co.in
Press F12 to open the DevTools
Within the DevTools section, on the Inspector tab, use the Inspector to identify the Search Box WebElement.
Copy the xpath (absolute) and paste it in a text pad.
Construct a logical unique xpath.
Within the DevTools section, on the Console tab, within JS sub menu, paste the logical unique xpath you have constructed in the following format and hit Enter or Return as follows:
$x("logical_unique_xpath_of_search_box")
The WebElement identified by the xpath will be reflected.
The new version of Firefox is not supporting firebug.
You can use chrome dev tools if you like so.
I personally writing XPath using chrome dev tools
For more info refer my answer here
Is there a way to get the xpath in google chrome?
Summary: When I try to go to the third page in a web site I'm trying to
screen scrape using Selenium and Chrome I can't find any elements on the third page.
I see Html for 2nd page in Driver.PageSource.
Steps:
Navigate.GoToUrl("LoginPage.aspx")
Find username and password elements.
SendKeys to Username and Password.
Find and click on Submit\Login button.
Web Site displays main menu page with two Link style menu items.
Find desired menu item using FindElement(By.LinkTest("New Person System")).
Click on link menu item. This should get me to the "Person Search" page (the 3rd page).
Try to wait using WebDriverWait for element on "Person Search" page. This fails to find element on new page after 5-10 seconds.
Instead of using WebDriverWait I then simply wait 5 or 10 seconds for page to load using Thread.sleep(5000). (I realize WebDriverWait is the better design option.
Try to find link with text "Person".
Selenium fails to find link tag.
I see desired "Person Search" page displayed in Chrome.
I see last page Html in ChromeDriver.PageSource.
Chrome geckodriver.exe. Build 7/21/2017.
NUnit 3.7.1
Selenium 3.4
VB
I used IE for another project with similar environment. Didn't have a problem getting to any page (once I coded Selenium correctly).
The web site I'm trying to screen scrape only supports recent IE version. I'm testing a legacy app for another project that requires IE 8. So using IE is out of the question.
Maybe I should try Firefox...
I am using selenium to test a webapp, for which most of the selenium test cases are already written. I have no idea how it works, I just build the project and go to link provided in the browser and run the test start running and yes all the test are manually written not generated.
I am using ruby, and doing something like this for clicking a link/button in a javascript popup :
def methodName()
clickAndWait("<Id of the link in js popup that I want to click>")
assertText("<text I need to check>")
end
this method is then called in '.test' file, but never works for a javascript popup, for the rest its all good !
help !
Popups a lot of the time are in a different context, either a frame or a window. When you call assertText, Selenium ignores these. Use the switchTo function (not sure of exact syntax in ruby) to switch to the popup before calling assertText
In Ruby maybe we should use like this:
#driver.switch_to.alert.accept
In IE and FF, i can attach an event handler to onBeforeUnload, and by passing a string to a property of the event, the user will see a dialog asking him whether he wants to continue with the "unloading" (either closing the window or navigating away).
Safari and Chrome don't support onBeforeUnload, and onUnload seems to be too late.
Is there some way to replicate the same functionality in Safari/Chrome?
NOTE: I'm not trying to keep the user hostage. I know this is nagging and un-cool. In fact, my site goes to great lengths to let the user go freely, and have everything in its place when they come back.
However, I am hosting other sites inside IFrames, and sometimes these decide to get rid of me and take over the browser, which is what I'm trying to avoid.
Thanks!
This works perfectly for me in both Chrome and Safari:
<html><body><p>Test</p>
<script>window.onbeforeunload = function() { return "Sure?"; }</script>
</body></html>
When I try to close the window, I get the prompt.
StackOverflow itself uses onbeforeunload, and it works fine for me in Safari:
function setConfirmUnload(a){window.onbeforeunload=a?function(){return a}:null}
I checked it in chrome and it seems to be working fine using this:
<body onunload="alert('x');" onbeforeunload="test1();">
This question is covered in slightly more detail in another newer StackOverFlow question:
Setting onbeforeunload on body element in Chrome and IE using jQuery