Get Element Attribute doesn't get 'type' values.
Andrew Kolesnik
When i get a 'class' attribute its' ok:
KEYWORD: ${fieldType} = SeleniumLibrary.Get Element Attribute //input[@id="lastName"]@class
| Documentation: | Return value of element attribute. |
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| 17:49:56.707 | INFO | ${fieldType} = frm_inputShort |
When i get a 'type' attribute it returns error: KEYWORD: ${fieldType} = SeleniumLibrary.Get Element Attribute //input[@id="lastName"]@type
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Maybe i do something wrong but I cannot get a type of given html tag by Get Element Attribute keyword.
if a <select or <input element placed on page how can i get which type of element?
Thanks in advance
Andrew
Pekka Klärck
>
> When i get a 'class' attribute its' ok:
>
>
> Maybe i do something wrong but I cannot get a type of given html tag by Get Element Attribute keyword.
> if a <select or <input element placed on page how can i get which type of element?
Since class works I suspect this could be a Selenium issue. Could you
try can you get the type value if you use Selenium IDE? The Selenium
command `Get Element Attribute` ends up using is `getAttribute`.
Cheers,
.peke
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Andrew Kolesnik
it something related with
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=850
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=674
more over i tried to
Call Selenium Api getAttribute //input[@id="lastName"]@type
and got the same result.
What a workaround can be proposed here? hm...
More obvious is to write own RegExp parser function for a while...
Pekka, thanks for reply.
Pekka Klärck
> yes, you are right
> it something related with
> http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=850
> http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=674
At least the first isn't too much related because it affects the new
WebDriver based APIs and SeleniumLibrary still uses old Selenium 1.0
APIs (that are still present in Selenium 2.0).
> more over i tried to
> Call Selenium Api getAttribute //input[@id="lastName"]@type
>
> and got the same result.
This pretty much confirms that this is a Selenium issue, though. Have
you tested this with different browsers? The problem could be somehow
related to how browsers parse the source code into DOM. Anyway, you
might want to submit an issue about this to Selenium's issue tracker.
> What a workaround can be proposed here? hm...
>
> More obvious is to write own RegExp parser function for a while...
Getting the whole page source and verifying it contains expected
content sounds like a good plan. Notice, though, that the source you
get from Selenium may also differ depending on the browser.
> Pekka, thanks for reply.
Glad I was able to help!
Janne Härkönen
> 2011/4/20 Andrew Kolesnik <kolesni...@gmail.com>:
>> What a workaround can be proposed here? hm...
>>
>> More obvious is to write own RegExp parser function for a while...
>
> Getting the whole page source and verifying it contains expected
> content sounds like a good plan. Notice, though, that the source you
> get from Selenium may also differ depending on the browser.
I recently created a small utility library for verifying content on
HTML pages[1]. It currently only works for local files, but could
easily be extended to also remote files. Verifying attributes of
elements would also be very easy to add.
If you are interested in helping with this approach, feel free to
create an issue in the project pages to get started.
[1] https://github.com/robotframework/HTMLChecker/
thanks,
--J
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