How to find element visible status....is this selenium bug or limitation ????

[Vinothkumar Velusamy]

Hi,

consider below code....

<div id = "Parent" style = "display : block">

    <div id = "child_1">

       <div id = "child_2">

          <div id = "child_3">

             <input id ="input_1" type = "text">

          </div>

      </div>

   </div>

</div>

now if i need to get the input path, i am doing by //input[@id="input_1"].. this will identify input path. suppose , if "style = "display : block"" is set to parent as mentioned in the above code, this is getting displayed in the html page , works fine with automation also.

if i change the style to set as  "style = "display : none", then the page will not display in the browser since the style is setted as none for the parent level. now if i execute the script which contains the code for  //input[@id="input_1"] alone, the findelementbyXpath able to find the element though it is not visible to the user level. 

now the question is :

how to get whether the parent style is set to none or not. Please note; i dont want to travel from parent path to child path.. i mean , i dont want to start from "//div[@id = "Parent" and contains[@style = "display : block"]]/div/div/div/input...

rather i need to find the parent of particular element dynamically.......... in this case... div id=parent ......

Thanks for the info in advance...

regards

Vinothkumar Velusamy

[shammi]

If you are changing style  "style = "display : none", then it won't find element because webdriver doesn't work on hidden elements.

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

@Shammi,

That's not true. AFAIK the only time when WebDriver would throw an error is when it cannot find an element in the DOM. 

Irrespective of whether an element is *visible* or not WebDriver would find the element but it will only interact with visible elements to the user. 

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[Vinothkumar Velusamy]

Any idea guys how to identify the style of the parent .... from my example ? ? ? ? ? 

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[sirus tula]

Hi Vinoth,

I think you can check if the element is visible or not by writing the following statements. The statement below will check if the element is present/displayed and clicks it if it is displayed.

if(driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input#input_1")).isDisplayed())

{

   driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input#input_1")).click();

}

Hope that helps.

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