I need to find the input box in this HTML:
<div id="employeesDataTable_filter" class="dataTables_filter">
<label>
<input type="search" class="form-control input-sm"
placeholder="Filter..." aria-controls="employeesDataTable">
</label>
</div>
But for the life of me cannot - please help,
I have successfully written bags of tests and found many page element of different types but this one has stumped me.
I am very new to this and have tried
By ExecutiveSearchBox = By.XPath("//input[#type='search' and
class='dataTables_filter']");
You have encountered problems because you are selecting class attribute on input node instead on div. Try following selector:
//div[#class='dataTables_filter']//input[#type='search']
Also as #Marco Forberg mention it is good to use contain() XPath function in case if there are multiple classes provided for element:
//div[contains(#class, 'dataTables_filter')]//input[#type='search']
I hope it'll help to resolve your issue :)
To find the input element in your html snippet, you simply use
FindElement( By.CssSelector( "input" ) )
But note:
not always is the input box editable after page load is completed, it may take some time. It might be wise to wait until the box becomes editable if you want to send data to it.
not always does the input box appear immediately in the DOM. With modern UI like Angular, it might be not there immediately, might be something else for a while and only later become an input field and the like. Also here, making use of Seleniums wait functionality sure is a good idea.
I ALWAYS wait for the DOM state I expect and only after some time when the state is not achieved I throw.
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I've been working on a small school project and decided to use .net core (MVC) for the first time. I have a small button I can click which executes the "ipconfig" command in the background and displays the output in a text area. At first my team partner used only a
public string Result;
in ViewModel for the view. In the view it's displayed via
<textarea asp-for="Result"></textarea>
So I decided to make it into a property with default get and set:
public string Result { get; set; }
But when I do that, the output doesn't show up in the textarea if I keep the same approach in the view as my team member did when he used a field instead of a property. Instead I have to do it like this to get it to show up in the textarea:
<textarea>#Model.Result</textarea>
Now I'm asking myself why this happens. Can't I display Properties with asp-for? And what would be better to use, a field or a property as Result?
Many thanks in advance!
In my case this behavior was happening because I did not have a separate closing tag on my textarea. I know your example above has it when using the asp-for method, but in case that was a copy/paste error, you may want to look at that again.
<textarea asp-for="Message" type="text" class="form-control" rows="5" id="MessageInputField" autofocus></textarea>
As opposed to:
<textarea asp-for="Message" type="text" class="form-control" rows="5" id="MessageInputField" autofocus />
This is incredibly annoying 'gotcha' like behavior in my opinion. And maybe if someone wants to tell me why it isn't, then please enlighten me, I'm always willing to learn.
You should actually be using properties, and if <textarea>#Model.Result</textarea> works, <textarea asp-for="Result"></textarea> should as well. The only reason it wouldn't is if the ModelState has a different value for Result (as the latter form actually uses ModelState, whereas the former is obviously using Model directly).
ModelState is composed of values from Request, ViewData/ViewBag, and finally Model, so for example, if you were to do something like ViewBag.Result = String.Empty, that would actually override the value from Model in ModelState.
There's no enough code here to truly diagnose the exact issue, but I would look for other places you might be using "result" (case-insensitive). If you're accepting that as a request param or setting a ViewBag member, etc. that's your problem.
I find this is a bit weird in .Net Core 6, when I want two-way binding - ie displaying the result
With asp-for I have to self close the tag AND add the additional textarea close tag to get the result displayed.
<textarea asp-for="Result" />#Model.Result</textarea>
This works but is not syntactically correct.
Without the self-close tag, the result was not being display
<textarea asp-for="Result">#Model.Result</textarea> #*Does not display the value*#
For display only, this is more correct
<textarea>#Model.Result</textarea>
I am using Selenium in C# to Enter data into textboxes on a webpage:
But i am getting this error:
OpenQA.Selenium.ElementNotVisibleException: Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with
I'm using #name, but there are 2 controls on the page with name="MinPrice"
heres the HTML:
<div class="form-group for-sale">
<label>Min Price</label>
<input class="form-control" name="MinPrice" min="0" placeholder="Minimum Price" value="" type="number"></input>
and this is the xpath I'm using:
txtMinPrice = Driver.Instance.FindElement(By.Name("MinPrice"));
I also tried using XPath, but similar results:
txtMinPrice = Driver.Instance.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[contains(#name,'MinPrice') and type='number']"));
If anyone has any type of idea....this is driving me nuts.
ElementNotVisibleException exception occurs when selenium can find an element in the DOM but it is not rendered on the screen.
When I have encountered this error before it has been generally caused by one of three things:
Selenium is trying to interact with an object that is present in the DOM but has not yet rendered on the screen, in which case you might consider adding some type of delay. (Avoid sleep if you can but it is useful for debugging)
The element is below the visible screen, in which case you would need to scroll to interact with it.
There is an overlapping element that is blocking the display of the element.
Add a sleep(10) in to make sure everything on the page has loaded first before any user actions are preformed. If that doesn't work also add
driver.manage().window().maximize() at the start of your test to make sure all the page elements is in view.
If that doesn't work its your xpath. Try something like //*[#class="form-group for-sale"]/input
Or use the Firefinder add on in mozilla firefox to check your xpath is valid and exists on the page.
Selenium is good at scrolling down to view an item, but when it comes to Scrolling back up it's a PiA, and usually throws that exception. I usually just do something like
element.SendKeys(Keys.Home);
Thread.Sleep(100);
that's my first question, i hope i'm doing everything correctly.
Anyway, i have a weird issue. I basically have this HTML input which i want to fill with WatiN :
<input name="edit[id]" class="form-text required" id="edit-id" type="text" size="60" maxlength="64" value="">
That's my code in C# :
IE ie = new IE();
ie.GoTo(urlhere, just too long);
ie.TextField(Find.ByName("edit[id]")).TypeText("Text");
It's not working and it returns this exception :
Ulteriori informazioni: Could not find INPUT (hidden) or INPUT (password) or INPUT (text) or INPUT (textarea) or TEXTAREA element tag matching criteria: Attribute 'name' equals 'edit[id]' at about:blank
I'm not sure why it gives "at about:blank" honestly. I tried with a random google page and the code it's working. If i put a random name instead of the correct one, it gives me the same exception but with the correct url instead of "about:blank".
Note : I'm trying to fill a form.
Thanks for your help!
Not sure what web page are you using but from the information you posted it looks like that form might be "somewhere else" (another div, frame, etc.) To be able to find the EXACT entry you should press F12 (IE) or CTRL+SHIFT+I (Chrome) and traverse the HTML web page to find the exact portion were the input lies and you will find the exact spot.
The code you posted is perfectly fine, there's nothing else you need to do to make it work. If you need more help, posting the webpage you are trying to use will go a long way (if possible, of course).
I have a webpage with 2 search fields (top and bottom) and some text in-between them and I want to send a query to the bottom field. Both fields are identical (same code).
I tried storing the bottom one in a variable and use that variable to send the keys, but somehow it always sends the text to the first one.
var bottomSearch = _WebDriver.FindElements(By.Id("inputBox"))[1];
Assert.IsTrue(bottomSearch.Displayed);
bottomSearch.Clear();
bottomSearch.Click();
bottomSearch.SendKeys("test");
bottomSearch.SendKeys(Keys.Enter);
So: Clear() works and properly deletes any text already present in the bottom search, Click() also works, SendKeys sends text to the top searchbox and SendKeys(Keys.Enter) goes back to the bottom one and presses Enter from there.
I use the firefox driver and also tried selecting the element by CssSelectors or other identifiers but did not work.
Any help or ideas are most appreciated!
Thank you!
Here is the code for the search fields:
<div class="searchbox-input">
<input id="inputBox" class="querybox" type="text" placeholder="Entrer le terme recherché" name="inputBox" value="test">
</div>
OK, so after 2 days of trial and error I asked the website's devs to change the id of the bottomSearch and now everything works well.
After all these tries I'm tempted to suspect a bug in the driver or the SendKeys() method, but since I failed to found any reference to back this up and I successfully dealt with same ID fields before, maybe it's just something in the website's implementation or mine.
So in conclusion, follow the best practice advices and this should never happen :)
I am writing some code that connects to a website, and using C#, and System.IO, reads the html file into my application, and then I continue to parse it.
What I am wanting to do now is, there is a drop down (combobox) on this site, that has 2 static values. I am wanting to have my code pick the 2nd option in the combo box and then parse the resulting html on the post back.
Any Ideas?
Ya the 2 selects are always the same.
Spamming software? Uh... No. It parses a video game website for player stats and I have full permission from the vendor to do so.
Yes I agree about the webservices, and they dont exist. I have already written the HTML parser and it works great. However, I need to pop this drop down for more data
I'd use HtmlAgilityPack and the HtmlAgilitypPack.AddOns.FormProcessor for that.
Say the code looks like this:
What color is your favorite?: <br/>
<form method="post" action="post.php">
<select name="color">
<option>AliceBlue</option>
<option>AntiqueWhite</option>
<option>Aqua</option>
</select><br/>
<input type="submit" value="Submit"/>
</form>
You would want to POST to post.php the argument "color" with the value "Aqua" (or whatever select value you want).