How check whether button is enabled or disabled in Web driver.

[SHAILESH]

Hi,

 

I am automating Website in which I have to Test whether button is enabled or disabled.

Which command shall I use?

I am new to Web driver.

 

Thanks and Regards,

Shailesh Jagtap.

[Shaba K]

webelement <somename> = driver.FindElement(By.Xpath());

somename.enabled();

somename.disabled();

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[SHAILESH]

Thank You Shaba!

On Thursday, June 7, 2012 5:50:08 PM UTC+5:30, Shaba wrote:

webelement <somename> = driver.FindElement(By.Xpath());

somename.enabled();

somename.disabled();

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:13 PM, SHAILESH <shailesh.jagtap@encodexindia.com> wrote:

Hi,

 

I am automating Website in which I have to Test whether button is enabled or disabled.

Which command shall I use?

I am new to Web driver.

 

Thanks and Regards,

Shailesh Jagtap.

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[Dinesh s]

Hi
may be it is useful
WebElement button= driver.findElement(By.id("id"));
        if(button.isEnabled())
        {
        d.findElement(By.id("id")).click();
        System.out.println("the button is enabled");
        }
        else
        {
            System.out.println("the button is disabled");
        }

[SH]

Hi,

 

I used your method to check element enabled/disable in C#.

 

It does not show webelement as class.

 

My Directives in code -

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Text;

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

using System.Threading;

using NUnit.Framework;

using OpenQA.Selenium;

using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;

using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;

 

I am using "selenium-dotnet-2.12.0" - net40.

 

Please Help me!

 

Thanks,

Shailesh

[SH]

Answer to my above Question is-

Return type of FindElement in C# is IWebElement.

You can get the button (or any element)

IWebElement element = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("")); 

After getting the element, you can check the property 'Enabled' which is a boolean.

It can be access like 

bool buttonEnabled = element.Enabled; 

Regards,

Shailesh.

[Jayanath karunarathna]

Hi Dinesh,

 I think this is not a good practice as we are performing a unwanted click. I see 2 problems here

  1. If the element is disabled we get UnknownError(Element is not clickable at this poit) instead of assertion Error

  2. If the element is enabled selenium will perform click action and most probably navigate to another page.

Therefore My opinion is checking whether button is enabled should be enough.
  Assert.assertFalse("Button should be disabled!", button.isEnabled() );

On Monday, June 11, 2012 3:45:05 PM UTC+5:30, Dinesh wrote: