I want to locate an element by its id in my webpage which is a text field where I enter a name.
So the element is :
<input type="text" id="a110_name" name="name" maxlength="255">
The first time, my test works well.
If I add a loop to click again to the element, selenium does not find because the id has changed.
ex: the id is changing each time I click on it.
<input type="text" id="a110_name" name="name" maxlength="255">
<input type="text" id="a120_name" name="name" maxlength="255">
my code:
driver.findElement(By.id("a110_name")).sendKeys("test");
How can I resolve this problem?
Good to hear that you have solved it using XPATH. You can solve this using CSS locator as below:
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[id$='_name']"));
We have to use XPATH's "contains" keyword with caution, in some cases it might match some other element. If you are more comfortable XPATH, better to use //input[ends-with(#id,'_name')]
Identify Element by containing Text
If the dynamic elements have a definite pattern to them, then we can also use JavaScript functions like “starts-with” or “contains” in our element locators to separate the dynamic part of locator from static part.
For example, in case of Id example which you provided, we can use ‘contains’ function to access this locator irrespective of its dynamic part.
XPath: //input[contains(#id, '_name')]
Using CSS, this will also work: input[id *=_name]
This means: if it contains '_name'
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Hello I have this code on my website that gives the query of a site search in the attribute 'value'
In this case, it is the word 'disjoncteur' that want in my variable in GTM.
<div class="dfd-searchbox-main">
<input type="search" name="search[query]" value="disjoncteur" autocapitalize="off" autocomplete="off" autocorrect="off" class="dfd-searchbox-input" id="dfd-searchbox-id-MIkFo-input" placeholder="Chercher…" dfd-value-indices="" dfd-hook="Input">
<div class="dfd-searchbox-autocomplete"></div>
What should i do to fetch that value in a variable ?
Thanks for the help
A general solution would be making a custom JS variable in GTM looking like this:
function(){
return document.querySelector("input[type='search']").value;
}
However, it's a little bit awkward due to how universal it attempts to be. And realistically, you likely only need that search value on the CTA click, so a relative path from that CTA could have been used through a {{Click Element}} variable. That would be a cleaner solution.
And, of course, the best solution would be asking front-end devs to give you the value with a dataLayer push so that you wouldn't need to rely on the html structure of the page to get your info.
Update:
I acheived to create a dom element variable by inserting the class of the element into ID and the attribute "value" as the attribute, it works like a charm.
I am using Robot Framework with Selenium2Library for website tests automation. My HTML Value is
<select class="autoWidth m![Element Locator Error][1]inWidth" id="ctl00_ResultPanePlaceHolder_ctl00_ctl02_ctl01_contentContainer_ddlLanguage" name="ctl00$ResultPanePlaceHolder$ctl00$ctl02$ctl01$contentContainer$ddlLanguage">
<option value=![enter image description here][2]"1118">አማርኛ (ኢትዮጵያ)</option>
I am using cmd
Click Element id=ctl00_ResultPanePlaceHolder_ctl00_ctl02_ctl01_contentContainer_ddlLanguage
I am getting
value error: Element locator did not match any element.
How to fix this issue.
Most likely your element is inside an iframe. Look through the html to see if you see <iframe ...> before the element you are trying to click. If so, you first need to use Select Frame before trying to click on the element.
You should need to use id= as ID is one of the default attributes it looks for. Is it possible to see some more of the html code surrounding the element you are after?
I couldn't find anything in the angularjs docs, nor online, about this specific aspect of form validation. You know when someone writes something in an input field (example: name, phone number, email etc.), and then there is a green checkmark that appears? Or an X that appears implying it's wrong, incomplete etc.
So, I have those images in my folder and ready for use in either situation. Problem is, I can't find the documentation to properly achieve what I would like to achieve. I am thinking that angularjs would be the solution to use, as the rest of my code in is angular.
Since this is angularjs, the only post and documentation that presented a viable option (which does not work for a few reasons) are the following options:
How to put an image in div with CSS?
https://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial/step_09
I was thinking of using CSS to trick the browser into making the one or the other image appear as it validates. I thought it might force the image in my other div to appear, but to no avail.
For example, in this CSS, I tried this:
.ng-valid.ng-dirty .div.test{
border-color: green;
content:url(http://example.com/image);
}
Using this in my HTML:
<div class="test">
<label style="float:left">by:</label>
<input class="form-control controltwo" required ng-model="reviewCtrl.review.author" name="email" id="email" type="email" style="width:350px;" placeholder="Email Address"/>
</div>
As I said before, I am trying to achieve something using angularjs. As CSS can be used for styling, it cannot be tricked into being a styling option and a complex validator. I've tried a few tricks as show on the links, but they don't work. As for the second link, it just isn't made for this purpose, and considering they are made only for filters and images, the docs for the filters don't help a bit.
A simple way of achieving what you want is to look in to the $valid or $invalid properties of your form control.
For example, to show a small message when the email is invalid, you would put this element in your markup.
<div ng-show='reviewForm.email.$dirty && reviewForm.email.$invalid'>Invalid Email</div>
Where reviewForm is the name of your form, and email is the name of your input control.
Here is a plunkr demonstrating this: http://plnkr.co/edit/tUuToy99xjfMhbyMd3eV
You can replace the element with whatever else you want
You can do this with ng-show, ng-src and ng-model depending on what you're validating.
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngModel
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngShow
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngSrc
The example under ng-model:text shows pretty much what you want. If you're not using forms, you should be able to use ng-change to fire off a check and change the image to the appropriate one.
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/input/input%5Btext%5D
If ng-show watches the $valid attribute of the field in question you can hide the check mark when validation is false, and show it when true. You can flip the logic if you want an X.
Is this possible to achieve without javascript/jQuery?
I currently have a login template with the input fields as:
<input id="username" type="text" name"username" placeholder="username" autofocus>
I was wondering if there was a way when the user clicked their mouse on the field to type the placeholder text would disappear without using javascript if possible? Before this i was just using value and echoing the variables out into the fields but currently experimenting with HTML 5 and CSS3.
Thanks.
New browsers have a native way to do this. And if supported, you don't have to do anything.
With older browsers you do need to use javascript.
Edit: When using new features on old browsers its called Pollyfills. Here is a nice list with a lot of pollyfills that can be used together with Modernizer, that in turn can detect this features.
I need to display part of the exposed form in my page's sidebar, and the rest of the form and content in the $content area. There's really no good way that I can find to do this. I sort of got it to show up in a way by making a "block" view with "exposed form" set and then trying to only show the part that i needed through .tpl files. The problem is that then, when the submit button is clicked (the submit button is in the $content area), then the filters that are in the sidebar are not taken into account.
Some lateral thinking... Why not explore CSS-only options? You can place that form element playing with position:absolute ? Or (considering is a right-sidebar) float:right and then some negative right margin to push it to the sidebar? If you are using 960 grid system, play with pull and push classes.
First I am going to answer your question, then I will explain why you are asking the wrong question:
If you build the form outside of the formapi, you might have some luck. This will get upgly and will require you to take a lot of extra care about attack-vectors such as mass-assignment.
views_some_view.tpl.php:
<form name="input" action="/link/to/view" method="get">
Country: <input type="text" name="country" />
my_custom_exposed_view.module:hook_block()
City:
That would make a form, which in most situations will start with <form>, have some input fields, then have a lot of random HTML, then some more input fields and then the closing .
As you may know, a <input type="submit" value="Submit" /> will only post everything of the form tags it is enclosed in. The submit button in the following HTML:
<form name="input_1" action="/link/to/view" method="get">
Country: <input type="text" name="country" />
</form>
<form name="input_2" action="/link/to/view" method="get">
City: <input type="text" name="city" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
will only send the City. These are not the droids you are looking for.
It will need to be one, big form, but since everything between form and /form is very dynamic, and contains a large quantity of HTML, including potential other forms, this is really not what you want. Moreover: a blocks appearance (shown/not-shown) is controlled completely independent of the content. You will need a lot of sturdy code to ensure the block a) never shows up when the starting form tag is not present, and b) the block will guaranteed to be shown when that opening form tag is present. Else you have not just invalid HTML, but broken HTML that will truly render your page unusable in most cases.
You simply don't want a part of the form in a block and the other part in the content.
However, you want it visualised as if one part is in the body, the rest in a sidebar.
The good news, is that with HTML presentation structure are independant. That is where your solution lies.
Give your form-fields good ids and classes. You could use a hook_form_alter to change existing forms, but you probably simply just want to create the HTML for that entire form yourself. The theme layer allows that.
Use CSS to pick out either single form-fields by ID and position:absolute them into the correct place. Or pick out classes of fields by CLASS and position:relative them into the correct place.
Make a simple identification-routine that allows adding a class to the body-tag. (see below).
Add some CSS to shift the sidebar lower, making space for the form-fields to be moved in, when that class is in the body-tag.
<body class="<?php print $splitform ?>">
function my_themename_preprocess_page() {
if ($GET['q'] == 'path/to/view') {
$vars['spliform'] = "splitform"
}
}
From the above explanation I am assuming that you are printing same form in block and in content area and you are hiding some part of form in page.tpl , if this is true then you can use hook_form_alter() in your custom module then
Store the value of the form element(present in block) in global variable.
Now use that global variable and set form element(present in content area, this form element is not visible to user).
Provide more information if you implemented other way.
Regards,
Chintan.
There is a related issue here:
https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/3827/multiple-copies-of-views-filter-form-exposed-filters
which describes how to duplicate your filters. However it seems like an ugly hack.
A bit cleaner seems this solution mentioned in #6:
http://drupal.org/node/641838#comment-3247748
Haven't tested it out, but it looks good.
It will still give you some overhead (duplicate views) but it might be the easiest way doing this using views.
On the other hand you might write a module and build your own custom filter block which hooks into your view. Here is a blog post about this:
http://www.hashbangcode.com/blog/creating-custom-views-filters-exposed-form-element-drupal-6-561.html
If you use something like context you could get the exposed filters block to display twice in the same page. You could then use CSS to hide the fields you don't want to do display in each form.
The fundamental problem you're having is that to have the two forms in different places, they'll each have their own form element - when a submit is triggered, only the form fields within the same form element are sent. You need to move them into one form, or rely on JavaScript to gather the fields from both forms and construct the post.
You could create the block as an empty div and have javascript from the main page populate it with the secondary filter form and whatever else you need in there. Again, you could use javascript to copy the form values from the block form to hidden fields in the main form on submit. That gives you all the control you need from one place (the node output). Only caveat is that it relies a lot more on javascript to join it all together.