Hi Phumza, In such a situation I would suggest use xpath attribute of the webtest. For example if you want to click a particular button present on the html page and with the normal way you got an error that button not found then use:-
<clickButton xpath="//tr/div/inp...@type="submit"]"/> and xpath is the actual path of the button in html document you want to click. we have also faced similar kind of problems of button/link not found though these items are present on the page and these problems are mostly solved using the xpath attribute of clickButton command of webtest. Hope this helps..!! Hitesh On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:31 AM, John Spann <[email protected]> wrote: > Based on your snippet of code, I noticed you have the form elements inside > a table. Does your <form> also start inside a table row? We see this issue > a lot in some of our legacy pages with malformed HTML. > > If the parent HTML element is closed before the form is closed, you have > malformed HTML. The most common pitfall I keep seeing is the following: > > <table> > <tr> > <td> > <form> > ... > </td>(Webtest sees the form end here and any elements below it are > not seen inside a form, giving the error you mentioned) > </tr> > ... > <tr> > <td> > <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Logon" > class="contentbutton" onClick="submitForm();"> (Webtest will not see this > button inside a form) > </td> > </tr> > ... > <tr> > <td> > ... > </form> > </td> > </tr> > </table> > > The fix is to move the form outside the table: > > <form> > <table> > ... > </table> > </form> > > Webtest will now correctly identify all form elements. > > We have found the following Firefox plugin especially helpful in > identifying malformed pages: http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/ > > Our basic rule is if the plugin shows a Red X, webtest most likely will > fail. > > > John Spann | Associate Software Engineer > > Citrix Online Division > Citrix Systems, Inc. > 6500 Hollister Avenue > Goleta, CA 93117 USA > www.citrix.com > > Phone: 805.690.3489 > Cell: 805.729.0008 > Email: [email protected] > > > On 3/2/09 10:42 AM, "Lisa Crispin" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Phumza, > I looked at the html for our buttons and I notice we don't have any that > are class="contentbutton", ours are class="formbutton" or > class="widebutton". I have no idea if that makes any difference (I'm not a > programmer), just throwing that out there. We had problems in the past with > buttons not being recognized, but not lately. > -- Lisa > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Phumza Zuba <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > I have a login button inside a form, in a jsp page, but when i direct > webtest to find that button and use it, it can't fine it. > I thought maybe it was something to do with javascript, but i've > disabled javascript. > > here is a code for the button. > > <clickButton description="Clicking the Login button should take us to > Appraisal Console" label="Logon" name="Submit"></clickButton> > > and here is the code in the jsp > <tr> > <div class="logonbutton" align="center"> > <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Logon" > class="contentbutton" onClick="submitForm();"> > </div> > </tr> > > And this is the error message i keep getting. > > Error > Message > No button found > > Location > /home/phumza/workspace1/WebTesting/tests/TamiTests/batch1.xml (line: 38) > > Details > available buttons > In current form: none > > Kind Regards > Phumza > > _______________________________________________ > WebTest mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest > > > _______________________________________________ > WebTest mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest >
