I am trying to select text which is already present on the browser.
I want to select that particular text and perform right click operation on it.
However, the page on the browser has disabled right click.
How can I select text in such situation?
Using a normal web browser without Selenium the only workaround that I can think about is to disable javascript to stop the script that prevents you from right clicking. So it should also work with a browser controlled by Selenium Webdriver.
I don't know if it will be OK for you because your website may be relying on javascript for essential features.
However if you don't need Javascript for your Selenium test you can try the following when you launch your driver :
FirefoxProfile p = new FirefoxProfile();
p.setPreference("javascript.enabled", false);
driver = new FirefoxDriver(p);
I assume that you already know how to perform a right click because your question was only about dealing with the problem preventing you from doing this right click. But if not, you can also refer to this answer :
Select an Option from the Right-Click Menu in Selenium Webdriver - Java
Edit:
I'm sorry I really thought you could use Selenium actions to select the text you want but after some tests I didn't manage to perform a click and drag to select a text. The only thing that works for me in Chrome or Firefox is the following. It looks for a <p>which contains some text and then perform a double click to select a word.
driver.get("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)");
WebElement text = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//p[contains(text(),'Java is')]"));
Actions select = new Actions(driver);
select.doubleClick(text).build().perform();
However it only highlighs one word in the html element that contains your text, so it's not really convenient.
I've also tried to do Ctrl+F and type the text so that the web browser automatically select it but the browser doesn't do anything when executing :
Actions search = new Actions(driver);
search .sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL,"+f")).sendKeys("Java is").build().perform();
It seems that Selenium can only send keys events to the html elements and not to the browser (in the case of ctrl+F).
I don't really see a solution for now, let's see if someone else can find a workaround. It's an interesting issue, it would also be useful for me to select a text the way you described
Move to middle of the element
Actions builder = new Actions(webDriverObject);
builder.moveToElement(element).build().perform();
Move to starting of element, click and hold, move to end
Integer width = element.getSize().getWidth();
Actions newBuilder = new Actions(webDriverObject);
newBuilder.moveByOffset(width/2,0).clickAndHold.moveByOffset(width,0).release().build().perform();
First of all i would like to say that i have gone through all the posts which are similar to my query but i have some different requirement.
In our project we are using gwt to develop the modules, in one of our module, we have "Edit" button which opens a new browser window which includes 'CKEditor'.
We are modifying the data in ckeditor comes(by url) from gwt widget .
The Window opens by using following code snippet(JSNI) in my gwt widget:
private static native BodyElement getBodyElement(String url) /*-{
var win = window.open("url", "win", "width=940,height=400,status=1,resizeable=1,scrollbars=1"); // a window object
return win.document.body;
}-*/;
The newly opened window have the html form which is with ckeditor.
So here i am closing new window once my form has been submitted but i want the edited text to be displayed in old window.
How can i achieve this requirement?
If you can use HTML5, it should be quite easy. Use Messaging.
Take a look here:
Cross-document messaging
With the reference of the newly opened window, yu can establish a communication between both windows.
i didn`t find any useful info about my problem. sorry if i repeat.
for example i want to click at the main page of http://www.bbc.com/ in the bottom of site link "Mobile site". in casual i do smth like this, to click on my button:
driver.getMouse(driver.findElement(By.Id("blq-footer-mobile"))).click();
but now i need to simulate the activity of user.
1. i need to scroll the page to bottom
2. need to move the cursor on link
3. click it
i realy tried all what i found in the internet, but everything wrong.
WebDriver simulates user interactions with web applications using native browser APIs. So as long as you are using pure WebDriver API, you are simulating natural user. You don't need to explicitly scroll, WebDriver would do that for you. If it's not scrolling then it is a bug and please report it accordingly. As for your question, here is the code that works.
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://www.bbc.com/");
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("blq-footer-mobile"));
element.click();
The Mobile site link in the above website will just take u to UK website of BBC..
which means, a click on Mobile site link in http://www.bbc.com/ will actually lead you to http://www.bbc.co.uk/, where in the page remains same with just the URL changed..
if you really want to experiment on Mobile site link, use this URL : http://www.bbc.co.uk/
you can try the following code :
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://www.bbc.co.uk/");
new WebDriverWait(driver,30).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("blq-footer-mobile"))).click();
this will wait for elements visibility and click on it,and this will take you to actual mobile site of BBC..
My main goal: When i click the link, a new browser window should be opened and displays the content of entire log file. And the window should not have an address bar and navigation buttons (Back, Forward).
Is there any approach to do this in Spring-MVC project?
Here is what i am doing now:
When i click the link, the controller will be called with a parameter logName.
Now the controller have access to get any kind of details of the log file like content, path, etc... I am setting all these details to an object and sending back to JSP.
Here i am not sure how to open a new window and display the content of the log file in that window.
Please suggest me an approach on this!!
It would be very helpful for me if you can share me with some examples...
Spring or JSP have nothing to do with it, the only way to force user's browser to open a link in a new tab is to use client-side Javascript. window.open() allows configuring the popup to hide certain interface elements (see all options in the documentation)
Your code would look something like:
<input type="button" value="Show Log" onclick="showLog(logName)">
function showLog(logName) {
var url = "/path-to-your-controller.html?logName=" + logName;
window.open(url, "LogPage", "toolbar=no,location=no,menubar=no");
}
However, I don't think using a customised browser popup is a good solution; it's been disappearing from the web for a reason. It would be more elegant to fetch raw data using AJAX and display it in a JS popup: it wouldn't interfere with user's page navigation (you tagged the question with jQuery, you could use jQuery UI for that).
What is more, I wouldn't be surprised if window.open wasn't supported by all browsers in the same way† - something to keep in mind if you're targeting a wider audience.
† seems that Chrome ignores location=no, for instance
What I need to do is browse to a webpage, login, then browse to another webpage on that site that requires you to be logged in, so it needs to save cookies. After that, I need to click an element on that page, in which I would fill out the form and get the message that the webpage returns to me. The reason I need to actually go to the page and click the button as suppose to just navigating directly to the link is because the you are assigned a session ID every time you log in and click the link, and its always different. The button looks like this, its not a normal href link:
<span id=":tv" idlink="" class="sA" tabindex="0" role="link">Next</span>
Anyway, what would be the easiest way to do this? Thanks.
Update:
After trying HTMLunit, and other headless browser libraries, it doesnt seem that its happening using anything "headless." Another thing that I recently found out about this page is that that all the HTML is in some weird format... Its all inside a script tag. Here is a sample.
"?ui\x3d2\x26view\x3dss\x26mset\x3dmain\x26ver\x3d-68igm85d1771\x26am\x3d!Zsl-0RZ-XLv0BO3aNKsL0sgMg3nH10t5WrPgJSU8CYS-KNWlyrLmiW3HvC5ykER_n_5dDw\x26fri"],"http://example.com/?ctx\x3d%67mail\x26hl\x3den",,0,"Gmail","Gmail",[["us","c130f0854ca2c2bb",[["n"],["m","New features!"],["u"],["k","0"],["p","1000:500000,10,200000,5,100000,3,75000,2,0,1"],["h","https://survey.googleratings.com/wix/p1679258.aspx?l\x3d1033"],["at","query,5,contacts,5,adv,5,cf,5,default,20"],["v","https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ra8HG6MkOXY?showinfo\x3d0"],
When I do inspect element on the button, the HTML code that I posted above for the button comes up, but not when doing view source. Basically, what I am going to need to do is use some sort of GUI and have the user navigate to the link and then have the program fill out the info. Does anyone know how I can do this? Thanks.
Have a look at the 5 Minute Getting Started Guide for Selenium: http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/GettingStarted
On the login page, look at the form's HTML to see the url it posts to and the url parameters. Then request that url with the same parameters filled in with correct info, and make sure to save all the cookie headers to send to the second page. Then use an html parser to find your link. There are several html parsers available on sourceforge, and you could even try java's built in xml parsers, though if the site has even a tiny html mistake they will glitch.
EDIT didn't notice the fact that it is not a normal link. In that case you will need to look at the site's javascript to see where the link leads. If the link requires javascript to run, it gets more complicated. Java is not able to execute browser javascript, but I found a library called DJ native swing which includes a web browser class that you can add to jframes. It uses your native browser to render, and to run javascript.
This should be possible in Selenium as others have noted.
I have used Selenium to login then crawl a site and discover every permuation of values for every form on the site (30+ forms). These values are later used to fill and submit the form with a specific perumation of values. This site was very JS/jQuery heavy and I used Selenium's built-in support of javascript executor, css selectors, and XPath to accomplish this.
I implemented HtmlUnit and HttpUnit as faster alternatives, but found they were not as reliable as Selenium given the JS semantics of the site I was crawling.
It's hard to give you code on how to accomplish it because your Selenium implementation will be quite page-specific and I can't look at the page you're coding against to figure out what's going on with that button script junk. However, I have include some possibly relevant selenium code (Java) snippets:
Element element = driver.findElements(By.id(value)); //find element on page
List<Element> buttons = parent.findElements(By.xpath("./tr/td/button")); //find child element
button.click();
element.submit() //submit enclosing form
element.sendKeys(text); //enter text in an input
String elementText = (String) ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("return arguments[0].innerText || arguments[0].textContent", element); //interact with a selenium element via JS
If you are coding similar functions on different pages, then PageObjects behind interfaces can help.
The link Anew posted is a good starting point and good ol' StackOverflow has answers to just about any Selenium problem ever.
Instead of trying to browse around programmatically, try executing the login request and save the cookies then set those in the next request to the form post.
HTMLUnit is pretty bad at processing JavaScript, the Rhino JS library produces often errors (actually no errors is much the exception). I would advise to use Selenium, which is basically a framework to control headless browsers (chrome, firefox based).
For your question, the following code would do the work
selenium.open(myurl);
selenium.click("id=:tv");
You then have to wait for the page to load
selenium.waitForPageToLoad(someTime);
I would recommend htmlunit any day. It's a great library.
First, check out their web page(http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/) to get htmlunit up and running. Make sure you use the latest snapshot(2.12 when writing this)
Try these settings to ignore pretty much any obstacle:
WebClient webClient = new WebClient(BrowserVersion.FIREFOX_17);
webClient.getOptions().setRedirectEnabled(true);
webClient.getOptions().setCssEnabled(false);
webClient.getOptions().setThrowExceptionOnScriptError(false);
webClient.getOptions().setThrowExceptionOnFailingStatusCode(false);
webClient.getOptions().setUseInsecureSSL(true);
webClient.getOptions().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webClient.getCookieManager().setCookiesEnabled(true);
Then when fetching your page, make sure you wait for background Javascript before doing anything with the page, like posting a login form:
//Get Page
HtmlPage page1 = webClient.getPage("https://login-url/");
//Wait for background Javascript
webClient.waitForBackgroundJavaScript(10000);
//Get first form on page
HtmlForm form = page1.getForms().get(0);
//Get login input fields using input field name
HtmlTextInput userName = form.getInputByName("UserName");
HtmlPasswordInput password = form.getInputByName("Password");
//Set input values
userName.setValueAttribute("MyUserName");
password.setValueAttribute("MyPassword");
//Find the first button in form using name, id or xpath
HtmlElement button = (HtmlElement) form.getFirstByXPath("//button");
//Post by clicking the button and cast the result, login arrival url, to a new page and repeat what you did with page1 or something else :)
HtmlPage page2 = (HtmlPage) button.click();
//Profit
System.out.println(page2.asXml());
I hope this basic example will help you!