How do I get the element next to currently selected element?
So my scenario is I open a page and click some button to load a table. When I click on the header of any column in the table it sorts and adds an image next to it. I have a locator for the header link. Problem is as it's old code it does not have id and that header link is in a td tag without any id or class. All it contains is a column name with a link. I want to make sure when I click that link image with sorting symbol appears next to it.
<td>
<a>Column Header</a>
</td>
Click on the column header and it changes to :
<td>
<a>Column Header</a>
<img src="sorting icon url" />
</td>
This can be done through something called XPath axes , refer this link
http://learn-automation.com/how-to-write-dynamic-xpath-in-selenium/
the following methodologies work in katalon as well , you will have to make an object and give the xpath of that object.
for your query xpath could be ://div[#class='xyz']/following-sibling::*
Let us asume that the button is uniquely identified by css selector 'td a'. Then your script could be something like
TestObject button = new TestObject().addProperty('css', ConditionType.EQUALS, 'td a')
WebUI.click(button)
TestObject button2 = new TestObject().addProperty('css', ConditionType.EQUALS, 'td a img')
WebUI.waitForElementHasAttribute(button2, 'src', 30)
It will return true if the img with any source is present. Will wait 30 seconds before giving an error, but you can change it as you wish.
Related
I want to be able to know exactly which element from a class has been clicked. I enabled the text option in Tag Manager:
But it's still not visible in the click object. But it wouldn't pick it up, since the tag containing the text is nested in the clickable element. Can I add a custom HTML attribute to be able to identify which element has been clicked?
<div class="card-content"> //<---- clickable element
<i aria-hidden="true" class="card-icon material-icons">business</i>
<h3 class="card-title">Company details</h3> //<--- clicked text
</div>
The best way to figure it out is to use the "Preview & Debug":
Activate it
Go to the page where you want to test (you should see now a new box at the bottom)
Click on the element
Check the variables in the debug box. Especially check the click.element data.
My guess is that since there is no "real" text in the div box, just children tags, no text can be discovered.
There are different options to solve it:
add the text as data-attribute to the div and use the click.element data
use a data-layer push event
if you know JS you can use the click.element data in a JS variable and traverse down to the h3
If you are going to keep your code as it is, you could create a custom variable, using Custom JavaScript.
In order to do so you need to first create the custom variable, choosing the Custom JavaScript type:
This code should do the job (I tested id)
function() {
return {{Click Element}}.closest('.card-content').getElementsByClassName('card-title')[0].innerText;
}
The custom variable will return the text inside .card-title.
To test the custom variable, you may create a dumb HTML tag with a console.log script, replacing Inside TXT with the name you gave to your custom variable:
<script>console.log( {{Inside TXT}} )</script>
The trigger should be a Click All Elements.
When previewing this tag, the captured text should appear in your console, as well as in the debugger panel.
Reading again your question, I wonder if you are going to have several .card-title items inside the .card-content. In that case, this custom variable will not work. Let me know what is the case.
Also, the code could be simpler, but I am not really sure on how is it really going to work in your site, so this one seems more reliable, since it works clicking anywhere in the element.
EDIT:
In order to test it, after you click an element, a new "Click" will appear in the left pane (Summary). There, in the Variables tab, you will see the variables captured by the click. The data will be stored under the variable name you gave to the variable.
In Google Tag Manager, I set it up to track some data from clicks on elements that contain a certain class and record an event in Google Analytics. It seems to work just fine for text links, but I run into problems if there is another tag inside the link for an image, icon, etc. For example, the following would work fine:
Click here
But this won't work:
<a href="link.html" class="track_this" data-tracking-info="my info">
<span class="icon click-here"></span>
</a>
And something like this will work if you click on the text, but not if you click on the icon:
<a href="link.html" class="track_this" data-tracking-info="my info">
<span class="icon click-here"></span> Click Here
</a>
I know that I could add the "track_this" class into the span for the icon, but it gets REALLY messy in more complicated scenarios. Like imagine having a thumbnail image with an icon and some text below it all wrapped into one a tag. I'd have to put that class and the tracking info on the image tag, the span for the icon, the div for the text, etc.
Is there a better way to do this? Thanks!
I could speak more definitively on this if I could see how your GTM was setup, but my guess is that you are using an "All Elements" trigger to capture these link clicks, and filtering on "Click Classes" or "Click Element". The issue with this is that, when the link tag (<a></a>) contains another element, such as a <span>, even though that triggers your link to open, the element that GTM records as receiving the click is the span, not the link.
If you want to fix this, there are two options, either of which should work.
The first is to switch to using a "Click - Just Links" trigger type, and filter on the class "track_this". For this trigger, GTM lets click events "bubble" up until they hit a link element, and then it tests your trigger against that link, instead of the element that was clicked on. Simply using this trigger type should work for all three of your samples.
The other option is to use a more advanced filter with the "Click - All Elements" trigger. If you modify the trigger so it fires on "Some Clicks", and then make the condition that "Click Element matches CSS selector:"
.track_this, .track_this *
then it will register a click on any element that has the track_this class, as well as a click on any element inside those elements.
This problem can also be solved using a little bit of javascript and a 'User-Defined Variable' in Tag Manger. This solution is for handling more complex UI components.
Explanation
Google Analytics + Tag Manger record the very specific Element or Node that is clicked by the user. That element is stored in GA as a "Click Element" variable. So in more complex UI situations it is possible the user could click on multiple elements for a single action to occur. For example. Here is a button with an icon and text.
<div
class="button"
id="PARENT_ID"
onClick = () => ...
>
<span id="CHILD_ONE">
icon
</span>
<span id="CHILD_TWO">
text
</span>
</div>
In this scenario it is possible for the user to click on any of the three id's above. All three will activate the onClick action. However, Google Analytics doesn't care about the onClick. It only cares about what specific element was clicked. IE: PARENT_ID, CHILD_ONE or CHILD_TWO.
The "User-Defined Variable" Solution.
In Tag Manager go to the 'Variables'. (Left column menu.)
Add a new 'User-Defined Variable'.
Select the variable type as 'Custom JavaScript'.
Add:
function() {
if ({{Click Element}}.id != "") {
return {{Click Element}}.id;
}
if ({{Click Element}}.parentNode.id != "") {
return {{Click Element}}.parentNode.id;
}
if ({{Click Element}}.parentNode.parentNode.id != "") {
return {{Click Element}}.parentNode.parentNode.id;
}
return {{Click Element}}.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.id;
}
This script will search the DOM up three levels up from any child Element (Node) and look for a matching Tag id.
NOTE: Click Element is the variable name used by Google Analytics. It's the gtm.element the user clicked.
Setup Tag Manager Configuration to use your new 'Custom Variable'.
Now use the parent id for setting up your Triggers. In my example PARENT_ID will be the returned id even if a user clicks on CHILD_ONE or CHILD_TWO. So select 'contains' PARENT_ID.
------ Further Considerations -----
This solution only works within three parent levels. Also while unlikely it is possible to capture an element out of scope of what is intended.
In more complex UI components it might be preferable to add the Tag id's to every Element. If you are using a front end framework like React I would suggest making the Tag Id a dynamic prop and add it to all child components.
NOTE: Google Analytics changes often. This is a GA4 + Tag Manager solution.
style use pointer-events:none can't tracking by inside.
<a>
<svg id="gtm-track">
<rect style="pointer-events:none"> .... <rect/>
<path style="pointer-events:none"> .... <path/>
<svg/>
<a/>
I want to create a "Click Element" trigger with a CSS selector... basically I want to set a trigger on a specific element, rather than all elements. So I create a trigger called "Click - All Elements" and then "Some clicks"... but it asks me to attach a variable to it??
So I tried to create an Auto-Event Variable with type "Element"... but then "element" in the data layer just returns the URL that element links to, rather than the entire element (it's returning "http://example.com/signup", rather than the actual HTML element)
This doesn't make any sense. All I want is to set a trigger on a specific CSS selected element. Please help!
To check for a CSS selector in a trigger, you need to create a variable that looks for your specific CSS selector. To do this, you need a variable called "DOM-element" to specify to your click trigger with the "Some clicks" option.
Instructions:
If you go to the section with variables, click the "NEW"-button to create a new variable. Once the right hand side pans out, open the "Variable configuration" and click on the one called "DOM-element". In the drop-down, you can select CSS-selector. Insert the value you'd like to check for in your trigger, and this should do as you ask.
So I'm assuming you have multiple elements that have the same class, and yet you only want to target one with your click element trigger? If you can add IDs or data elements instead of just relying on a class, you can still do it using a "Click" event and "matches css selector" in your "Fires On" setting.
So if you had the following element:
<a id="whatever" href="whatever">My Link</a>
Since IDs are unique you would just use the following selector "matches css selector":
#whatever
With data attribute on specific element, you can target all elements with specific classes, but limit it based on a unique identifier you set in a data attribute:
So if you had the following element:
<a href="whatever" data-mytrack='4'>My Link</a>
You would use the following selector for "matches css selector":
a[data-mytrack='4']
I'm using like this, and it works.
Trigger Configuration
I am writing a selenium script that automates a web-page. I need to click on a button which is defined within a list.
This is the image of my web UI - New Account is the button I am referring to
This is my XML code :
<div id="00B4E000000LQ2C_topNav" class="topNav primaryPalette">
<div id="00B4E000000LQ2C_subNav" class="subNav">
<div class="linkBar brandSecondaryBrd">
<div id="00B4E000000LQ2C_listButtons" class="listButtons">
<ul class="piped">
<li>
<input class="btn" type="button" title="New Account" onclick="navigateToUrl('/setup/ui/recordtypeselect.jsp?ent=Account&ekp=001&retURL=%2F001%3Ffcf%3D00B4E000000LQ2C%26isdtp%3Dnv%26nonce%3Df8007ad94993912b7ff4149193a6096ccfed4ebb1454e0b9b310ad14b61de71d%26sfdcIFrameOrigin%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fcs83.salesforce.com&save_new_url=%2F001%2Fe%3FretURL%3D%252F001%253Ffcf%253D00B4E000000LQ2C%2526isdtp%253Dnv%2526nonce%253Df8007ad94993912b7ff4149193a6096ccfed4ebb1454e0b9b310ad14b61de71d%2526sfdcIFrameOrigin%253Dhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fcs83.salesforce.com&isdtp=vw','LIST_VIEW','new');" name="new" value="New Account"/>
</li>
<li class="lastItem">
</ul>
I used:
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[#id='00B4E000000LQ2C_listButtons']/ul/li[1]/input")).click();
(Xpath was given by the firebug) but it gives me an error stating
unable to locate elements
Please help me script / locate this button.
You don't have to use XPaths generated by the Firebug and check the element's parents along the way. We can do better, you can write a more reliable and a simpler way to locate the element:
driver.findElement(By.name("new"));
or:
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[name=new]"));
or:
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[value='New Account']"));
Note that the XPath expression you have looks valid. You may be experiencing a timing issue and would need to wait for the element presence, visibility or clickability, see: How to wait until an element is present in Selenium?.
And, if the button is inside the iframe, you need to switch to its context and only then search the button:
driver.switchTo().frame("ext-comp-1005");
Hi please try like below
// first way
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#name='new']")).click();
// second way
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#class='btn']")).click();
// basically you can use various attributes of input tag with button inside the xpath to click
Update working with i frame
// A short way to identify how many iframe's are present on a web page
List<WebElement> numberOfFrames= driver.findElements(By.tagName("iframe"));
System.out.println("Total Number of iframes present are : " +numberOfFrames.size());
for(int i=0;i<numberOfFrames.size();i++){
// here u can identify iframes with any of its attribute vale say name,title or which is most suitable.
System.out.println("Name of the i-frames : " + numberOfFrames.get(i).getAttribute("name"));
}
// Back to your question - button lies inside iframe hence
// key here is before clicking you have to switch to the frame first
driver.switchTo().frame(driver.findElement(By.name("frame name")));
hope this helps you
Using the source code below, I need to track text values of clicked links.
How can I track this and whether page load rule or event based rule is beneficiary for it?
How to code this using dtm?
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This is a perfect time to use an Event Based Rule. You'll also need to create a data element to hold the text value.
The main obstacle that I can see from your code would be identifying the A tag correctly.
First the Data Element: in DTM Rules, within Data Elements click Create New Data Element.
Enter a name, specify the type (CSS Selector seems the most appropriate here) then within the CSS Selector Chain list state how to reach it. My guess is for your code it would be "div.p-magnific-popup-launcher a" but you would need to test this. You can tell by opening a Inspect Element (F12) in Chrome or similar debugging gadget. There's a good blog about doing this from Adobe here.
You should also specify which part of the A tag to save. From your question you I believe you need 'text' which would capture items like "How long does it take to get?"
Under Event Based Rules within DTM click Create New Rule.
When you're happy with the settings on this page click Save Data Element.
Populate your name, and category if applicable. The Event Type should already be set to 'click'.
Within Tag you then have to set how to find the A tag through CSS, similar to above.
That's the basics, but you'll also need to set Criteria (what pages this should fire on). Furthermore, under the Adobe Analytics section you should set whether a pageview is incremented or not, and which eVars, Props and Events are populated as a result of the click. This is also where you can use the value from your Data Element. Under Link Tracking, choose Custom Link. Within Link Name, enter a percent sign (%) and your data elements should appear. Use the name you specified earlier.
Note: you should match up your populated eVars and Events etc. with your settings under Report Suites in the Analytics interface.
I am assuming you are attempting to get the text of an <a> element when it is clicked on.
Such as in the one below, you would want to get "How long does it take to get?":
How long does it take to get?
To do this, create an event based rule with the event type "click", set the element tag to "a". (See image below)
Next you will want to configure the Adobe Analytics section of the rule.
You will set the Tracking to s.tl() ,since you do not want to create a pageview when someone clicks the link (the page they view should already do that).
Then set an eVar and/or Prop to %this.text%. This is DTM notation to grab the text of the element that triggered the rule to fire.
Finally, set an event to trigger on this rule.
See image below for the configuration
This should track when an <a> element is clicked and store the text in an eVar