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using Webdriver

Accessing Form
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Input boxes refer to

either of these two
types:
1. Text Fields- text boxes that accept typed values and show them as
they are.
2. Password Fields- text boxes that accept typed values but mask
them as a series of special characters (commonly dots and
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The sendKeys() method is used to enter values into input boxes.

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Deleting Values in Input Boxes

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The clear() method is used to delete the text in an input box. This
method does not need any parameter. The code snippet below will
clear out the text "tutorial" in the User Name text box.

3) Introduction IDE
4) First Script
5) Locators
6) Enhancements
7) Intro WebDriver

Radio Button
Toggling a radio button on is done using the click() method.

8) Install
Webdriver
9) First WebDriver
Script
10) Forms &
Webdriver
11) Links & Tables
12) Keyboard
Mouse Events

Check Box
Toggling a check box on/off is also done using the click() method.
The code below will click on Facebook's "Keep me logged in" check
box twice and then output the result as TRUE when it is toggled on,
and FALSE if it is toggled off.
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14) Selenium Grid
15)
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Testing
17) All About Excel
in Selenium
18) Creating
Keyword & Hybrid
Frameworks
19) Page Object
Model & Page
Factory
20) PDF, Emails
and Screenshot of
Test Reports
21) Using
Contains, Sibling,
Ancestor to Find
Element
22) Core
Extensions
23) Sessions,
Parallel run and
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Dependency

Links

24) Handling Date

Links also are accessed by using the click() method.

Consider the below link found in Mercury Tours' homepage.

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You can access this link using linkText() or partialLinkText() together

with click(). Either of the two lines below will be able to access the
"Register here" link shown above.

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Drop-Down Box
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Before we can control drop-down boxes, we must do following two

things :
1. Import the package org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select
2. Instantiate the drop-down box as a "Select" object in WebDriver
As an example, go to Mercury Tours' Registration page
(http://newtours.demoaut.com/mercuryregister.php) and notice the
"Country" drop-down box there.

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Step 1
Import the "Select" package.

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Step 2
Declare the drop-down element as an instance of the Select class. In
the example below, we named this instance as "drpCountry".

Step 3
We can now start controlling "drpCountry" by using any of the available
Select methods. The sample code below will select the option
"ANTARCTICA".

Selecting Items in a Multiple SELECT element

We can also use the selectByVisibleText() method in selecting
multiple options in a multi SELECT element. As an example, we will
take http://jsbin.com/osebed/2 as the base URL. It contains a dropdown box that allows multiple selections at a time.
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The code below will select the first two options using the
selectByVisibleText() method.

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Select Methods
The following are the most common methods used on drop-down
elements.
Method
selectByVisibleText() and
deselectByVisibleText()
Example:
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Description
Selects/deselects the option
that displays the text matching
the parameter.
Parameter: The exactly
displayed text of a particular

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displayed text of a particular

option
selectByValue() and
deselectByValue()
Example:

selectByIndex() and
deselectByIndex()
Example:

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Selects/deselects the option

whose "value" attribute
matches the specified
parameter.
Parameter: value of the
"value" attribute
Remember that not all dropdown options have the same
text and "value", like in the
example below.

Selects/deselects the option at

the given index.
Parameter: the index of the
option to be selected.

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isMultiple()
Example:

deselectAll()
Example:

Returns TRUE if the drop-down

element allows multiple
selections at a time; FALSE if
otherwise.
Needs parameters needed

Clears all selected entries. This

is only valid when the dropdown element supports
multiple selections.
No parameters needed

Submitting a Form
The submit() method is used to submit a form. This is an alternative
to clicking the form's submit button.
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You can use submit() on any element within the form, not just on the
submit button itself.

When submit() is used, WebDriver will look up the DOM to know

which form the element belongs to, and then trigger its submit
function.

Summary
The table below summarizes the commands to access each type of
element discussed above.

Element

Command

Description

Input Box

sendKeys()

used to enter values onto

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Input Box

sendKeys()

used to enter values onto

text boxes

clear()

used to clear text boxes of

its current value

click()

used to toggle the element

on/off

Links

click()

used to click on the link and

wait for page load to
complete before proceeding
to the next command.

Drop-Down
Box

selectByVisibleText()/

selects/deselects an option
by its displayed text

Check Box,
Radio
Button,

deselectByVisibleText()
selectByValue()/
deselectByValue()

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selects/deselects an option
by the value of its "value"
attribute

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selectByIndex()/
deselectByIndex()

Submit
Button

selects/deselects an option
by its index

isMultiple()

returns TRUE if the dropdown element allows

multiple selection at a time;
FALSE if otherwise

deselectAll()

deselects all previously

selected options

submit()

WebDriver allows selection of more than one option in a multiple

SELECT element.
To control drop-down boxes, you must first import the
org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select package and then create a
Select instance.
You can use the submit() method on any element within the form.
WebDriver will automatically trigger the submit function of the form
where that element belongs to.
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Pandu Ranga G

8 months ago

Hi ,
Drop-Down Box:
i Couldn`t able to select an item using selectbyvalue nor selectbyvisibletext - please help me on this.
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Vanniyaraja Karkuvel > Pandu Ranga G

8 months ago

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As already stated by them its not available for all the web pages... selectByVisibleText & selectByindex w
helpful for all the webpages.

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4 months ago

How to automate if a page a browse button to upload an image / file

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Arjun > vivek

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with the help of Robot class you can upload anything.

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