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3 Replies Last post: Nov 20, 2008 9:50 AM by Wayne Richards

Wayne Richards

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Nov 20, 2008

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Nov 20, 2008 6:34 AM

Problems clicking Javascript link

Hi All,

I am trying to get Selenium ide 1.0b2 to click a link on a pop up window, the windows contains a html table with each datarow containing a html link which fires some javascript. Below is an example of a row in the which contains the link I am trying to click on.

<tr style="">

<td class="field-string">

<a href="JavaScript: SelectItem( '7141','Boss Hogg','Line_Manager_Employee_ID');">Boss Hogg</a>

</td>

<td class="field-string">RDD</td>

</tr>

I am trying to use a click command to click on the link, ide records the command as

<tr>

    <td>clickAndWait</td>
    <td>link=Boss Hogg</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>

using the above it just hangs at the clickandwait command, if I change it to a plain click command it passes the test but does not actually click the link on the page. I have tried selecting the link using xpath generated from Xpath Checker with the same result.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Regards

Wayne

Tags: xpath, selenium_ide, selenium, javascript, ide, clicks

gim_h

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Oct 17, 2007

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1. Nov 20, 2008 7:18 AM

in response to: Wayne Richards

Re: Problems clicking Javascript link

selenium doesn't support pseudo-url, moreover pseudo-url is not a recommended usage by w3c http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20041008/#js-url

the workaround is change href="javascript:...." to onclick="javascript:...", and then click the link

you can use selenium to make the change.

Wayne Richards

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Nov 20, 2008

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2. Nov 20, 2008 8:27 AM

in response to: gim_h

Re: Problems clicking Javascript link

Thanks for the help that is great, you suggest selenium can be used to make the change, can you give an example of how I would achieve that.

Thanks again

Wayne

Wayne Richards

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3. Nov 20, 2008 9:50 AM

in response to: Wayne Richards

Re: Problems clicking Javascript link

Hi All,

I now have this sorted using the following,

|storeAttribute | link=Boss Hogg@href | boss |
|storeEval | selenium.browserbot.findElement('link=Boss Hogg').setAttribute('onclick', storedVars.boss) | Boss |
|click | link=Boss Hogg | |

Regards

Wayne

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