Get bookmark value from URL calling classic ASP - asp-classic

If I'm calling for example, http://www.mysite.asp?p1=2&p2=3#Bookmark Does the browser invoke that #Bookmark after the "classic" ASP generates output? It appears that it's not coming thru, the browser doesn't jump down to the bookmark. I am suspicious it's getting "thrown out" by either ASP or the browser. This acts the same on both FF and IE6. Ideas? Thanks Stackoverflow!

Have you set the anchor name in the HTML markup?
For this #Bookmark to work you must have a link <a name="Bookmark" ... ></a>.
See HTML Links - The name Attribute.
Basic notes:
Tip: If a browser does not find the named anchor specified, it goes to the top of the document. No error occurs.
More on this:
http://thedailyreviewer.com/dotnet/view/bookmark-anchors-and-vbnet-103202803
http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t96249-can-you-jump-to-an-anchor-on-postback.html

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How do I locate elements in protractor that are in other views and are not visible when viewing page source

I am new to Angular & Protractor (and web development for that matter), so I apologize of this is an obvious question.
I am trying to test our angular app with protractor, and it appears that I can locate the first element on the page. But cannot find any of the other elements using (id, name, model, css). I have tried chaining off of the first element, but always get the element not found error on the second element in the chain. I've have triple check the spelling so I am confident everything is correct.
Our page is setup up with multiple sections and when I "view source" I only see the root div.
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div ng-app="app" id="wrap">
<div ui-view></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
But when I inspect the elements using the developer tools (F12), they exist in the DOM, I just don't know how to get to them.
<input type="text" class="form-control ng-valid ng-dirty ng-valid-parse ng-touched" data-ng-model="vm.searchText" id="searchText" placeholder="(Account # / Name / Nickname / Phone #)">
I tried to access the control listed above using the following:
browser.element(by.id("searchText").sendKeys("test");
browser.element(by.model("vm.searchText").sendKeys("test");
element(by.id("searchText").sendKeys("test");
element(by.model("vm.searchText").sendKeys("test");
I also create a single button and used partialButtonText & buttonText, neither of which worked.
I also tried to add some async functionality with "then" but that didn't work either. How do I access these elements are are not contained in a single html file?
thanks.....
If an element is not visible, I believe protractor isnt able to interact with it. It can't click or get text or anything if it is not visible, that is actually checked before it can perform the action.
What you can do is check the element is present to ensure it is somewhere on the html.
var searchText = $('#searchText');
expect(searchText.isPresent()).toBeTruthy('Search Text element not present');
This will find an element with a css selector of id searchText, and then check if it is present(exists on the html).
If you want to interact with it, remember that protractor looks around like a human would. If a human cant click it, neither can protractor! Make sure it is on the page and visible.
Don't have the reputation points to add this in the comments to user2020347's response so...When you say not in "view source" I assume you're talking about dynamically generated content. Instead of using view source either use chrome or firefox developer tools to make sure you're using the right locators.
For example in chrome's console the following should return a result once the page is loaded:
$$('#searchText')
$$('input[data-ng-model="vm.searchText"]')
It also looks like you're sending keys to the same element.
Since you have an angular app protractor should wait for all elements to load, but just in case you might want to wait for the element to be present and/or visible on the page.
Same happened to me, because Protractor executed on the original (first) tab.
Try to switch between the tabs before accessing the elements:
browser.getAllWindowHandles().then(function (handles) {
browser.driver.switchTo().window(handles[1]);
});

Selenium and iframe

I have an iframe that gets loaded when i click on a tab on a page. When i use Firebug to look at the iframe on IE8, all i see is:
iframe id=tabContextFrame class=contextFrame contentEditable=inherit src=/xyz.dt?forward=show&layouttype=NoHeader&runid=1234 name=tabContextFrame url=/xyz.dt?forward=show&layouttype=NoHeader&runid=1234 scrolling=auto
and that's it.The hierarchy below the iframe can't be seen. I want to click on a link within the iframe. To find the elements within the iframe, I did a selenium.click("on the tab that loads the iframe") and then selenium.getHtmlSource(). From this source, I can at least locate my link of interest. I did a selenium.click("//span[text()='Link']") but it doesn't seem to do anything. Any ideas please?
Here is the code:
selenium.click("//span[text()='tab that loads iframe']");
Thread.sleep(5000);
selenium.selectFrame("tabContextFrame");
selenium.mouseOver("//span[text()='Link']");
selenium.mouseDown("//span[text()='Link']");
selenium.mouseUp("//span[text()='Link']");
Thread.sleep(5000);
selenium.selectFrame("null");
I'm guessing you are using Selenium 1.0. Have you looked at Selenium 2.0 and WebDriver. I found the following and it worked for me:
Q: How do I type into a contentEditable iframe? A: Assuming that the
iframe is named "foo":
driver.switchTo().frame("foo");
WebElement editable = driver.switchTo().activeElement();
editable.sendKeys("Your text here");
Sometimes this doesn't work, and this is because the iframe
doesn't have any content. On Firefox you can execute the following
before "sendKeys":
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("document.body.innerHTML = '<br>'");
This is needed because the iframe has no content by default:
there's nothing to send keyboard input to. This method call inserts an
empty tag, which sets everything up nicely.
Remember to switch out of the frame once you're done (as all further
interactions will be with this specific frame):
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
I found this on http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Use driver.switchTo().defaultContent(); first then do your operation

Page load fires twice on Firefox

OK, first some background: I have a page showing the number of hits(or views) of any selected item. The hit counter procedure that is called at every page load i.e
if (Request.QueryString.HasKeys())
{
// get item id from icoming url e.g details.aspx?itemid=26
string itemid = Request.Params["itemid"];
if (!Page.IsPostBack)
{
countHit(itemid);
}
}
The problem: my expectation was that the counter would be increased by 1 on every page load but the counters on my datalist and formview are always behind and stepped by 2 i.e
instead of 1, 2, 3, 4, it's 0, 2 , 4, 6.
It seems that the page load is firing twice. Later I discovered that this only happens when you are using Mozilla Firefox. The page behaves fine with other browsers like IE
This becoming quite frustrating.
I've seen Page_Load fire twice if you have an <asp:Image> or an <img runat="server"> on the page that doesn't have its src attribute specified.
Could be worth a look.
I am aware of following things.
If you have img control with empty string assigned to src attribute.
You may be forgot to assign imageurl or wanted to assign imageurl in code behind based on the some condition and that condition never gets executed and ended up being empty string assigned to src attribute when ASP.Net renders the page.
If you have empty string assigned to href attribute to html link for stylsheet.
If you have empty src attribute set to script.
for more information refer this article. http://patelshailesh.com/index.php/page_load-event-fires-twice-with-firefox-only
I had this problem as well.. in my case firebug was causing the extra call.
We ran into a similar problem where fiddler showed that one of our pages loaded twice. This only happened in Firefox and Chrome. The solution was to change:
background-image:url('');
to
background-image:none;
Try turning off FireBug if you have it enabled.
I had this problem too. I found that AVG antivirus toolbar on firefox makes another hit to that page and I had 2 hits per refresh.
Just go to Tools>Add-ons and disable AVG toolbar if you have it. Otherwise it may caused by another extension like one added by antiviruses or other software.
Good luck
The most likely reason is that you're calling the procedure twice.
Usually the reason that the page_load is fired twice is that you have AutoEventWireup=true in the ascx/aspx AND you bind the Load event to the Page_Load method explicitly (in the codebehind).
But then you should see this behavior in all browsers.
Anchor tag with empty href i.e. href="" is also an issue. Use href="#" wherever URL is not required in an anchor tag.

asp.net linkbutton client-side problem

I have this linkbutton with post-back disabled ... I should have done it with an html control but just did it that way .. It is toggling a language bar on top (marara.com.tr - language link)
It needs to be clicked twice in order to get the div to fade-in. I can correct the problem but just want to know why it behaves like that. .. in the first click it adds a # sign to the address bar then on the second click it does what it is supposed to.. any leads?
thanx in advance
Emre
I had a similar problem. It depends on the browser you are using (This occurred when I was using Firefox but not when I was testing in IE6). It seemed like the browser looks at the URL and sees that nothing has changed (except the #...) so it doesn't reload the URL, causing the #... not to register. You can trick it into thinking the query string has changed by adding a '&' before the '#' so that you add &#... to the URL.

How do I get the current location of an iframe?

I have built a basic data entry application allowing users to browse external content in iframe and enter data quickly from the same page. One of the data variables is the URL.
Ideally I would like to be able to load the iframes current url into a textbox with javascript. I realize now that this is not going to happen due to security issues.
Has anyone done anything on the server side? or know of any .Net browser in browser controls. The ultimate goal is to just give the user an easy method of extracting the url of the page they are viewing in the iframe It doesn't necessarily HAVE to be an iframe, a browser in the browser would be ideal.
Thanks,
Adam
I did some tests in Firefox 3 comparing the value of .src and .documentWindow.location.href in an iframe. (Note: The documentWindow is called contentDocument in Chrome, so instead of .documentWindow.location.href in Chrome it will be .contentDocument.location.href.)
src is always the last URL that was loaded in the iframe without user interaction. I.e., it contains the first value for the URL, or the last value you set up with Javascript from the containing window doing:
document.getElementById("myiframe").src = 'http://www.google.com/';
If the user navigates inside the iframe, you can't anymore access the value of the URL using src. In the previous example, if the user goes away from www.google.com and you do:
alert(document.getElementById("myiframe").src);
You will still get "http://www.google.com".
documentWindow.location.href is only available if the iframe contains a page in the same domain as the containing window, but if it's available it always contains the right value for the URL, even if the user navigates in the iframe.
If you try to access documentWindow.location.href (or anything under documentWindow) and the iframe is in a page that doesn't belong to the domain of the containing window, it will raise an exception:
document.getElementById("myiframe").src = 'http://www.google.com/';
alert(document.getElementById("myiframe").documentWindow.location.href);
Error: Permission denied to get property Location.href
I have not tested any other browser.
Hope it helps!
document.getElementById('iframeID').contentWindow.location.href
You can't access cross-domain iframe location at all.
I use this.
var iframe = parent.document.getElementById("theiframe");
var innerDoc = iframe.contentDocument || iframe.contentWindow.document;
var currentFrame = innerDoc.location.href;
HTA works like a normal windows application.
You write HTML code, and save it as an .hta file.
However, there are, at least, one drawback: The browser can't open an .hta file; it's handled as a normal .exe program. So, if you place a link to an .hta onto your web page, it will open a download dialog, asking of you want to open or save the HTA file. If its not a problem for you, you can click "Open" and it will open a new window (that have no toolbars, so no Back button, neither address bar, neither menubar).
I needed to do something very similar to what you want, but instead of iframes, I used a real frameset.
The main page need to be a .hta file; the other should be a normal .htm page (or .php or whatever).
Here's an example of a HTA page with 2 frames, where the top one have a button and a text field, that contains the second frame URL; the button updates the field:
frameset.hta
<html>
<head>
<title>HTA Example</title>
<HTA:APPLICATION id="frames" border="thin" caption="yes" icon="http://www.google.com/favicon.ico" showintaskbar="yes" singleinstance="no" sysmenu="yes" navigable="yes" contextmenu="no" innerborder="no" scroll="auto" scrollflat="yes" selection="yes" windowstate="normal"></HTA:APPLICATION>
</head>
<frameset rows="60px, *">
<frame src="topo.htm" name="topo" id="topo" application="yes" />
<frame src="http://www.google.com" name="conteudo" id="conteudo" application="yes" />
</frameset>
</html>
There's an HTA:APPLICATION tag that sets some properties to the file; it's good to have, but it isn't a must.
You NEED to place an application="yes" at the frames' tags. It says they belongs to the program too and should have access to all data (if you don't, the frames will still show the error you had before).
topo.htm
<html>
<head>
<title>Topo</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function copia_url() {
campo.value = parent.conteudo.location;
}
</script>
</head>
<body style="background: lightBlue;" onload="copia_url()">
<input type="button" value="Copiar URL" onclick="copia_url()" />
<input type="text" size="120" id="campo" />
</body>
</html>
You should notice that I didn't used any getElement function to fetch the field; on HTA file, all elements that have an ID becomes instantly an object
I hope this help you, and others that get to this question. It solved my problem, that looks like to be the same as you have.
You can found more information here: http://www.irt.org/articles/js191/index.htm
Enjoy =]
I like your server side idea, even if my proposed implementation of it sounds a little bit ghetto.
You could set the .innerHTML of the iframe to the HTML contents you grab server side. Depending on how you grab this, you will have to pay attention to relative versus absolute paths.
Plus, depending on how the page you are grabbing interacts with other pages, this could totally not work (cookies being set for the page you are grabbing won't work across domains, maybe state is being tracked in Javascript... Lots of reasons this might not work.)
I don't believe that tracking the current state of the page you are trying to mirror is theoretically possible, but I'm not sure. The site could track all sorts of things server side, you won't have access to this state. Imagine the case where on a page load a variable is set to a random value server-side, how would you capture this state?
Do these ideas help with anything?
-Brian J. Stinar-
Does this help?
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/iframe.html
I only tested this in firefox, but if you have something like this:
<iframe name='myframe' id='myframe' src='http://www.google.com'></iframe>
You can get its address by using:
document.getElementById('myframe').src
Not sure if I understood your question correctly but anyways :)
You can use Ra-Ajax and have an iframe wrapped inside e.g. a Window control. Though in general terms I don't encourage people to use iframes (for anything)
Another alternative is to load the HTML on the server and send it directly into the Window as the content of a Label or something. Check out how this Ajax RSS parser is loading the RSS items in the source which can be downloaded here (Open Source - LGPL)
(Disclaimer; I work with Ra-Ajax...)
Ok, so in this application, there is an iframe in which the user is supplied with links or some capacity that allows that iframe to browse to some external site. You are then looking to capture the URL to which the user has browsed.
Something to keep in mind. Since the URL is to an external source, you will be limited in how much you can interact with this iframe via javascript (or an client side access for that matter), this is known as browser cross-domain security, as apparently you have discovered. There are clever work arounds, as presented here Cross-domain, cross-frame Javascript, although I do not think this work around applies in this case.
About all you can access is the location, as you need.
I would suggest making the code presented more resilitant and less error prone. Try browsing the web sometime with IE or FF configured to show javascript errors. You will be surprised just how many javascript errors are thrown, largely because there is a lot of error prone javascript out there, which just continues to proliferate.
This solution assumes that the iframe in question is the same "window" context where you are running the javascript. (Meaning, it is not embedded within another frame or iframe, in which case, the javascript code gets more involved, and you likely need to recursively search through the window hierarchy.)
<iframe name='frmExternal' id='frmExternal' src='http://www.stackoverflow.com'></frame>
<input type='text' id='txtUrl' />
<input type='button' id='btnGetUrl' value='Get URL' onclick='GetIFrameUrl();' />
<script language='javascript' type='text/javascript'>
function GetIFrameUrl()
{
if (!document.getElementById)
{
return;
}
var frm = document.getElementById("frmExternal");
var txt = document.getElementById("txtUrl");
if (frm == null || txt == null)
{
// not great user feedback but slightly better than obnoxious script errors
alert("There was a problem with this page, please refresh.");
return;
}
txt.value = frm.src;
}
</script>
Hope this helps.
You can access the src property of the iframe but that will only give you the initially loaded URL. If the user is navigating around in the iframe via you'll need to use an HTA to solve the security problem.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536474(VS.85).aspx
Check out the link, using an HTA and setting the "application" property of an iframe will allow you to access the document.href property and parse out all of the information you want, including DOM elements and their values if you so choose.

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