Selenium: finding the right element identifier
I'm relatively new to selenium automation, and am trying to test a form that has been created for me. I'd like to put test values into a textbox whose HTML code looks like:
<input type="text" id="txtEndCustId" onkeypress="return isNumberKey(event);" class="Text" required="" onfocus="txtEndCustIdFocus('Your customer END CUSTOMER DEP ID');" onblur="txtEndCustIdblur();">
I thought I'd use the "id" of the box, but the code:
Dim options As New Chrome.ChromeOptions
Dim service As ChromeDriverService = ChromeDriverService.CreateDefaultService
Dim wd As New Chrome.ChromeDriver(service, options)
wd.Navigate.GoToUrl("x")
wd.FindElementById("txtEndCustId").SendKeys("1")
Gives an error:
Unable to locate element: {"method":"id","selector":"txtEndCustId"}
To be perfectly honest I've no idea where I went wrong here - thanks in advance for your help.
Is there any "List All Element ids" function, so that I can marry them up with what's shown in the chrome inspector view?
vb.net selenium selenium-chromedriver
asked Nov 21 '18 at 15:51
Martin KSMartin KS
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I'm relatively new to selenium automation, and am trying to test a form that has been created for me. I'd like to put test values into a textbox whose HTML code looks like:
<input type="text" id="txtEndCustId" onkeypress="return isNumberKey(event);" class="Text" required="" onfocus="txtEndCustIdFocus('Your customer END CUSTOMER DEP ID');" onblur="txtEndCustIdblur();">
I thought I'd use the "id" of the box, but the code:
Dim options As New Chrome.ChromeOptions
Dim service As ChromeDriverService = ChromeDriverService.CreateDefaultService
Dim wd As New Chrome.ChromeDriver(service, options)
wd.Navigate.GoToUrl("x")
wd.FindElementById("txtEndCustId").SendKeys("1")
Gives an error:
Unable to locate element: {"method":"id","selector":"txtEndCustId"}
To be perfectly honest I've no idea where I went wrong here - thanks in advance for your help.
Is there any "List All Element ids" function, so that I can marry them up with what's shown in the chrome inspector view?
vb.net selenium selenium-chromedriver
asked Nov 21 '18 at 15:51
Martin KSMartin KS
145319
Please provide the entire line of code where you are trying to get the element by it's ID, (...) does not give enough information.
– Ryan Wilson
Nov 21 '18 at 15:52
Sorry, it's just the chromedriver object - I've expanded the sample code now
– Martin KS
Nov 21 '18 at 16:01
IS it possible you are trying to get the element before the page has fully loaded?? You may want to read this SO post on how to do a wait with webdriver (stackoverflow.com/questions/13244225/…)
– Ryan Wilson
Nov 21 '18 at 16:07
no, I'm stepping through the code in the debugger, and it doesn't even allow me to step to that line before the page has finished the 'navigate' line and fully loaded - or at least it appears visually to be fully loaded, and the chromium window can see the element if I hit F12 there.
– Martin KS
Nov 21 '18 at 16:14
@MartingKS is the element you want wrapped inside a frame, iframe?
– Ryan Wilson
Nov 21 '18 at 16:18
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I'm relatively new to selenium automation, and am trying to test a form that has been created for me. I'd like to put test values into a textbox whose HTML code looks like:
<input type="text" id="txtEndCustId" onkeypress="return isNumberKey(event);" class="Text" required="" onfocus="txtEndCustIdFocus('Your customer END CUSTOMER DEP ID');" onblur="txtEndCustIdblur();">
I thought I'd use the "id" of the box, but the code:
Dim options As New Chrome.ChromeOptions
Dim service As ChromeDriverService = ChromeDriverService.CreateDefaultService
Dim wd As New Chrome.ChromeDriver(service, options)
wd.Navigate.GoToUrl("x")
wd.FindElementById("txtEndCustId").SendKeys("1")
Gives an error:
Unable to locate element: {"method":"id","selector":"txtEndCustId"}
To be perfectly honest I've no idea where I went wrong here - thanks in advance for your help.
Is there any "List All Element ids" function, so that I can marry them up with what's shown in the chrome inspector view?
vb.net selenium selenium-chromedriver
asked Nov 21 '18 at 15:51
Martin KSMartin KS
145319
I'm relatively new to selenium automation, and am trying to test a form that has been created for me. I'd like to put test values into a textbox whose HTML code looks like:
<input type="text" id="txtEndCustId" onkeypress="return isNumberKey(event);" class="Text" required="" onfocus="txtEndCustIdFocus('Your customer END CUSTOMER DEP ID');" onblur="txtEndCustIdblur();">
I thought I'd use the "id" of the box, but the code:
Dim options As New Chrome.ChromeOptions
Dim service As ChromeDriverService = ChromeDriverService.CreateDefaultService
Dim wd As New Chrome.ChromeDriver(service, options)
wd.Navigate.GoToUrl("x")
wd.FindElementById("txtEndCustId").SendKeys("1")
Gives an error:
Unable to locate element: {"method":"id","selector":"txtEndCustId"}
To be perfectly honest I've no idea where I went wrong here - thanks in advance for your help.
Is there any "List All Element ids" function, so that I can marry them up with what's shown in the chrome inspector view?
vb.net selenium selenium-chromedriver
vb.net selenium selenium-chromedriver
asked Nov 21 '18 at 15:51
Martin KSMartin KS
145319
asked Nov 21 '18 at 15:51
Martin KSMartin KS
145319
edited Nov 21 '18 at 16:00
Martin KS
asked Nov 21 '18 at 15:51
Martin KSMartin KS
145319
asked Nov 21 '18 at 15:51
Martin KSMartin KS
145319
asked Nov 21 '18 at 15:51
Martin KSMartin KS
145319
145319
Please provide the entire line of code where you are trying to get the element by it's ID, (...) does not give enough information.
– Ryan Wilson
Nov 21 '18 at 15:52
Sorry, it's just the chromedriver object - I've expanded the sample code now
– Martin KS
Nov 21 '18 at 16:01
IS it possible you are trying to get the element before the page has fully loaded?? You may want to read this SO post on how to do a wait with webdriver (stackoverflow.com/questions/13244225/…)
– Ryan Wilson
Nov 21 '18 at 16:07
no, I'm stepping through the code in the debugger, and it doesn't even allow me to step to that line before the page has finished the 'navigate' line and fully loaded - or at least it appears visually to be fully loaded, and the chromium window can see the element if I hit F12 there.
– Martin KS
Nov 21 '18 at 16:14
@MartingKS is the element you want wrapped inside a frame, iframe?
– Ryan Wilson
Nov 21 '18 at 16:18
|
show 1 more comment
Please provide the entire line of code where you are trying to get the element by it's ID, (...) does not give enough information.
– Ryan Wilson
Nov 21 '18 at 15:52
Sorry, it's just the chromedriver object - I've expanded the sample code now
– Martin KS
Nov 21 '18 at 16:01
IS it possible you are trying to get the element before the page has fully loaded?? You may want to read this SO post on how to do a wait with webdriver (stackoverflow.com/questions/13244225/…)
– Ryan Wilson
Nov 21 '18 at 16:07
no, I'm stepping through the code in the debugger, and it doesn't even allow me to step to that line before the page has finished the 'navigate' line and fully loaded - or at least it appears visually to be fully loaded, and the chromium window can see the element if I hit F12 there.
– Martin KS
Nov 21 '18 at 16:14
@MartingKS is the element you want wrapped inside a frame, iframe?
– Ryan Wilson
Nov 21 '18 at 16:18
Please provide the entire line of code where you are trying to get the element by it's ID, (...) does not give enough information.
– Ryan Wilson
Nov 21 '18 at 15:52
Please provide the entire line of code where you are trying to get the element by it's ID, (...) does not give enough information.
– Ryan Wilson
Nov 21 '18 at 15:52
Sorry, it's just the chromedriver object - I've expanded the sample code now
– Martin KS
Nov 21 '18 at 16:01
Sorry, it's just the chromedriver object - I've expanded the sample code now
– Martin KS
Nov 21 '18 at 16:01
IS it possible you are trying to get the element before the page has fully loaded?? You may want to read this SO post on how to do a wait with webdriver (stackoverflow.com/questions/13244225/…)
– Ryan Wilson
Nov 21 '18 at 16:07
IS it possible you are trying to get the element before the page has fully loaded?? You may want to read this SO post on how to do a wait with webdriver (stackoverflow.com/questions/13244225/…)
– Ryan Wilson
Nov 21 '18 at 16:07
no, I'm stepping through the code in the debugger, and it doesn't even allow me to step to that line before the page has finished the 'navigate' line and fully loaded - or at least it appears visually to be fully loaded, and the chromium window can see the element if I hit F12 there.
– Martin KS
Nov 21 '18 at 16:14
no, I'm stepping through the code in the debugger, and it doesn't even allow me to step to that line before the page has finished the 'navigate' line and fully loaded - or at least it appears visually to be fully loaded, and the chromium window can see the element if I hit F12 there.
– Martin KS
Nov 21 '18 at 16:14
@MartingKS is the element you want wrapped inside a frame, iframe?
– Ryan Wilson
Nov 21 '18 at 16:18
@MartingKS is the element you want wrapped inside a frame, iframe?
– Ryan Wilson
Nov 21 '18 at 16:18
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Since your element is inside a frame, you need to navigate the driver to the frame first, a frame has it's own Document containing x number of DOM elements.
First switch to the frame:
//You need to use method switchTo() to set the driver to the frame document
//In this case we are passing in the id of the iframe
wd.switchTo().frame("ctl00_CPH_iframeCat");
//Now that the driver is working on the frame document, you should be able to manipulate the
//input you want
wd.FindElementById("txtEndCustId").SendKeys("1")
//Finally, switch the driver back to the main page document (original document which contains the frames)
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
Here is a good piece of documentation which should explain this in more detail:
(http://www.assertselenium.com/webdriver/handling-iframes-using-webdriver/)
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Since your element is inside a frame, you need to navigate the driver to the frame first, a frame has it's own Document containing x number of DOM elements.
First switch to the frame:
//You need to use method switchTo() to set the driver to the frame document
//In this case we are passing in the id of the iframe
wd.switchTo().frame("ctl00_CPH_iframeCat");
//Now that the driver is working on the frame document, you should be able to manipulate the
//input you want
wd.FindElementById("txtEndCustId").SendKeys("1")
//Finally, switch the driver back to the main page document (original document which contains the frames)
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
Here is a good piece of documentation which should explain this in more detail:
(http://www.assertselenium.com/webdriver/handling-iframes-using-webdriver/)
answered Nov 21 '18 at 16:52
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Since your element is inside a frame, you need to navigate the driver to the frame first, a frame has it's own Document containing x number of DOM elements.
First switch to the frame:
//You need to use method switchTo() to set the driver to the frame document
//In this case we are passing in the id of the iframe
wd.switchTo().frame("ctl00_CPH_iframeCat");
//Now that the driver is working on the frame document, you should be able to manipulate the
//input you want
wd.FindElementById("txtEndCustId").SendKeys("1")
//Finally, switch the driver back to the main page document (original document which contains the frames)
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
Here is a good piece of documentation which should explain this in more detail:
(http://www.assertselenium.com/webdriver/handling-iframes-using-webdriver/)
answered Nov 21 '18 at 16:52
Ryan WilsonRyan Wilson
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Since your element is inside a frame, you need to navigate the driver to the frame first, a frame has it's own Document containing x number of DOM elements.
First switch to the frame:
//You need to use method switchTo() to set the driver to the frame document
//In this case we are passing in the id of the iframe
wd.switchTo().frame("ctl00_CPH_iframeCat");
//Now that the driver is working on the frame document, you should be able to manipulate the
//input you want
wd.FindElementById("txtEndCustId").SendKeys("1")
//Finally, switch the driver back to the main page document (original document which contains the frames)
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
Here is a good piece of documentation which should explain this in more detail:
(http://www.assertselenium.com/webdriver/handling-iframes-using-webdriver/)
answered Nov 21 '18 at 16:52
Ryan WilsonRyan Wilson
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Since your element is inside a frame, you need to navigate the driver to the frame first, a frame has it's own Document containing x number of DOM elements.
First switch to the frame:
//You need to use method switchTo() to set the driver to the frame document
//In this case we are passing in the id of the iframe
wd.switchTo().frame("ctl00_CPH_iframeCat");
//Now that the driver is working on the frame document, you should be able to manipulate the
//input you want
wd.FindElementById("txtEndCustId").SendKeys("1")
//Finally, switch the driver back to the main page document (original document which contains the frames)
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
Here is a good piece of documentation which should explain this in more detail:
(http://www.assertselenium.com/webdriver/handling-iframes-using-webdriver/)
answered Nov 21 '18 at 16:52
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Please provide the entire line of code where you are trying to get the element by it's ID, (...) does not give enough information.
– Ryan Wilson
Nov 21 '18 at 15:52
Sorry, it's just the chromedriver object - I've expanded the sample code now
– Martin KS
Nov 21 '18 at 16:01
IS it possible you are trying to get the element before the page has fully loaded?? You may want to read this SO post on how to do a wait with webdriver (stackoverflow.com/questions/13244225/…)
– Ryan Wilson
Nov 21 '18 at 16:07
no, I'm stepping through the code in the debugger, and it doesn't even allow me to step to that line before the page has finished the 'navigate' line and fully loaded - or at least it appears visually to be fully loaded, and the chromium window can see the element if I hit F12 there.
– Martin KS
Nov 21 '18 at 16:14
@MartingKS is the element you want wrapped inside a frame, iframe?
– Ryan Wilson
Nov 21 '18 at 16:18