Re: Can't find input field

[Markus Bernhardt]

Well, id should be really unique on a html page. Or??? 

Look: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_global_id.asp

Although you don't have to change your app. You could use for example a xpath locator:

    input text    xpath=//input[@id='username']    joe.bloggs

Cheers,

Markus

Am 12.06.2013 um 17:04 schrieb Fredrik Liljegren <liljegre...@gmail.com>:

Hi,

I'm a new user of Robot Framework and have just run into a problem. I'm creating a test where I login to a web page and perform some actions. But I can't get the actual login procedure to work.

Now, I've managed to do it on another site, so my basic idea is right. I suspect that the structure of the page under test is the issue:

code snippet from page:

<p id="username">
 <label for="username"> Username</label>
<br>
<input id="username" class="inputbox" type="text" size="18" alt="Username" name="username">
</p>
<p id="password">
<label for="passwd"> Password</label>
<br>
<input id="passwd" class="inputbox" type="password" alt="Password" size="18" name="password">
</p>

My test looks like this:

*** Settings ***
Test Teardown     close browser
Library           Selenium2Library

*** Test Cases ***
Test Login
    open browser    http://web.url.com    firefox
    Maximize Browser Window
    Title should be    Pageheader
    input text    username    joe.bloggs
    input password    passwd    secret


The error I get when running is:

16:47:33.813

INFO

Typing text 'joe.bloggs' into text field 'username'

16:47:34.035

FAIL

WebDriverException: Message: u'Element must be user-editable in order to clear it.' ; Stacktrace: at bot.Error (file:///c:/users/fredri~1.fre/appdata/local/temp/tmpkan0o7/webdriver-py-profilecopy/extensions/fxdr...@googlecode.com/components/command_processor.js:3290) at bot.action.clear (file:///c:/users/fredri~1.fre/appdata/local/temp/tmpkan0o7/webdriver-py-profilecopy/extensions/fxdr...@googlecode.com/components/command_processor.js:9505) at WebElement.clearElement (file:///c:/users/fredri~1.fre/appdata/local/temp/tmpkan0o7/webdriver-py-profilecopy/extensions/fxdr...@googlecode.com/components/command_processor.js:9939) at DelayedCommand.prototype.executeInternal_/h (file:///c:/users/fredri~1.fre/appdata/local/temp/tmpkan0o7/webdriver-py-profilecopy/extensions/fxdr...@googlecode.com/components/command_processor.js:10456) at DelayedCommand.prototype.executeInternal_ (file:///c:/users/fredri~1.fre/appdata/local/temp/tmpkan0o7/webdriver-py-profilecopy/extensions/fxdr...@googlecode.com/components/command_processor.js:10461) at DelayedCommand.prototype.execute/< (file:///c:/users/fredri~1.fre/appdata/local/temp/tmpkan0o7/webdriver-py-profilecopy/extensions/fxdr...@googlecode.com/components/command_processor.js:10401)

Entering the password works just fine, but not the username. Could it be the fact that the input id and name is identical for username (they are not for password)? If so, is there a workaround (that doesn't include changing the code on the web page)?

Thanks in advance.

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[Fredrik Liljegren]

Thank you very much, the xpath method did the trick (I really have to get familiar with xpaths).

I know, the id should be unique. However, the web page we're doing the tests on is not our own, so we don't have any real input in the matter ;)

  // Fredrik

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[Jason Zhao]

the error was webdriver,so you might want to try this :

1.use other browser instead to see if it would happen again

2.if so, you might have to check firefox_profile.py ,to switch self.profile_dir = newprof into self.profile_dir = str(newprof)

[juan carlos marin castro]