Handling HTML Form Elements.

Almost in every web application, we inputs some values, Selects Options/Checkbox clicks on links/buttons etc through html elements and submit the page and save/retrieve values.

Today we will see how to interact with all these HTML elements (Web Controls).
WebDriver treats all those elements as a same that is WebElement.

below is the list of web controls and their HTML Syntax.

Name	HTML Syntax	Control
Hyper Link	<a href="#">Link</a>	My Simple Link
Text Box	<input type="text" value="Some Text"/>
Password	<input type="password" value="somepass"/>
Multiline Textbox	<textarea>Firstline Secondline </textarea>	Firstline Secondline
Checkbox	<input name="check1" type="checkbox"/>checkbox 1 <input name="check2" type="checkbox"/>checkbox 2	checkbox 1   checkbox 2
Radio Button	<input name="options" type="radio" value="Option1" />Option 1 <input name="options" type="radio" value="Option2" />Option 2	Option 1   Option 2
Input Button	<input type="button" value="Click Me" id="myInpButton" />
Button	<button id="myButton">Click Me</button>
Submit Button	<input type="Submit" id="mySubmit" />
Combo Box	<select> <option>Value 1</option> <option>Value 2</option> <option>Value 3</option> </select>	Value 1Value 2Value 3
Multi Select ListBox	<select multiple="multiple" size="5"> <option>Value 1</option> <option>Value 2</option> <option>Value 3</option> <option>Value 4</option> <option>Value 5</option> </select>	Value 1Value 2Value 3Value 4Value 5

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Click Elements :

Below elements are generally used for Click interaction, also many time we need to verify element is enabled / disabled

• Hyper Link
• Input Button
• Button
• Submit Button

to click on all above controls we can use click() Method
to check the element is enabled we use isEnabled() Method
Check the below code

  WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
  driver.get("http://seleniumbyneeds.blogspot.in/2015/01/handling-various-html-form-elements.html");
  // Click on Button
  driver.findElement(By.id("button")).click();
  // Verify input button enabled if yes click on it
  if(driver.findElement(By.id("inpButton")).isEnabled()){
    driver.findElement(By.id("inpButton")).click();
  }
  // Click on link by selecting by link text
  driver.findElement(By.linkText("My Simple Link")).click();

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Text Elements

Below elements used to enter text/numbers/words

• Text Box
• Password
• Multiline Textbox

to enter the text, We use .sendKeys() Method with desired text as argument to read text from Multi line TextBox we use .getText() Method but to read the text from the TextBox & Password element we should use .getAttribute("value")
to clear the text from elements we can use clear()
please check below code

  WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
  driver.get("http://seleniumbyneeds.blogspot.in/2015/01/handling-various-html-form-elements.html");
  // Enter the text in text box
  driver.findElement(By.id("tbox")).sendKeys("Hello there");
  // print the text from text tbox
  System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.id("tbox")).getAttribute("value"));
  // enter the text in multi line text box
  driver.findElement(By.id("tarea")).sendKeys("here comes line 1\nhere comes line 2");
  // print the text from multi line text tbox
  System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.id("tarea")).getText());
  // Clear the password field
  driver.findElement(By.id("pass")).clear();

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Selection Elements

Here in this category we get multiple options to select from them, below is the list of selection elements

• Checkbox
• Radio Button
• Combo Box
• Multi Select ListBox

to check or un-check the CheckBox we use click() Method.
to verify the CheckBox is checked we use .isSelected() Method

to select & verify selected Radio buttons, same methods are used

to select the specific option from Combo Box & Multi Select ListBox Selenium WebDriver provides Special class org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select
Below is code snippet which use to select single or multiple options.

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
  driver.get("http://seleniumbyneeds.blogspot.in/2015/01/handling-various-html-form-elements.html");
  //Check the checkbox
  driver.findElement(By.name("check1")).click();
  //Check the checkbox 2 if it is not checked
  if(driver.findElement(By.name("check2")).isSelected()){
     driver.findElement(By.name("check2")).click();
  }
  // select the option Value 2 from combo box
  // 1. Convert WebElement to Select
  // 2. Select the desired option
  Select comboBox = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("myCombo")));
  comboBox.selectByVisibleText("Value 2");
  //
  // Multi select from the list
  //
  Select listBox = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("myCombo")));
  listBox.selectByVisibleText("Value 1");
  listBox.selectByVisibleText("Value 2");
  //
  // deselect the specific item
  //
  listBox.deselectByValue("Value 1");
  //
  // De-select all the items from the list 
  //
  listBox.deselectAll();

Select class also provide other useful methods to interact with List and combo
getFirstSelectedOption() returns the first selected element from the list
getAllSelectedOptions() returns List of WebElement which are selected

Note: Other then Visible text there are also methods available for index & value attribute


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