[Webtest] Re: Clicking a button not working in form

Noam Aigerman Noam Aigerman <noama@answers.com>
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:24:30 +0300


Yes. It's for internal checks, so that random string is generated to
create random content. It's editing links for a page titled "What about
0aX6Xruq87pVrEtsu8qQ"...

-----Original Message-----
From: webtest-admin@gate4.canoo.com
[mailto:webtest-admin@gate4.canoo.com] On Behalf Of Trent Ohannessian
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 6:14 PM
To: webtest@gate4.canoo.com
Subject: [Webtest] Re: Clicking a button not working in form

The form's action looks a little strange?  Is that truly what it's 
supposed to be?

action="/Q/What about 0aX6Xruq87pVrEtsu8qQ&action=editrelatedlink"


Noam Aigerman wrote:
> Hi, I am trying to click the button in the following form:
> 
> <form id="addrelatedlink" name="addrelatedlink" action="/Q/What about
0aX6Xruq87pVrEtsu8qQ&action=editrelatedlink" method="POST"
enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
> 
> Title:
> 
> </td><td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 5px;">
> 
> <input id="new_title" type=text name="new_title" value=""
maxlength=100 size=80 onkeydown="javascript:urlTitleTooLong()"
onkeypress="javascript:urlTitleTooLong()"  />
> 
> </td>
> 
> </tr>
> 
> <tr style="color:#666666;">
> 
> <td></td>
> 
> <td style="font-style:italic;padding-left: 5px; width: 78px;
vertical-align: top; padding-top: 5px;">Examples:</td>
> 
> <td><ul
style="list-style-type:none;list-style-position:outside;margin-left:0;">
<li>WebMD</li><li> BBC: Somali troops close in on capital</li><li>
Answers.com: North Korea</li></ul>
> 
> </td></tr>
> 
> <tr><td><br/></td></tr>
> 
> <tr>
> 
> <td ALIGN=RIGHT>URL/Address:</td>
> 
> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 5px;"><input type=text
name="new_url" value="" size=80></td></tr>
> 
> <tr style="color:#666666;">
> 
> <td></td>
> 
> <td style="font-style:italic;padding-left: 5px; width: 78px;
vertical-align: top; padding-top: 5px;">Examples:</td>
> 
> <td>
> 
> <ul
style="list-style-type:none;list-style-position:outside;margin-left:0;">
<li>http://www.WebMD.com/</li>
> 
> <li>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6214379.stm</li>
> 
> <li>http://www.answers.com/topic/north-korea</li><ul></TD></tr>
> 
> <tr><td><br/></td></tr>
> 
> <tr><td colspan="3"align="center">
> 
> <input type="hidden" name="wpSave" value="1"/>
> 
> <input type="image" style="margin-top: 15px; cursor: pointer;"
src="http://wa-trunk/templates/icons/bn_add_link.gif?v=28252" title="Add
Link" name="wpSaveButton" value="Add Link"/>
> 
> </form>
> 
>  
> 
> I tried doing
> 
> clickButton xpath='//input[@name="wpSaveButton"]'/>
> 
> or
> 
> clickButton xpath='//input[@name="wpSave"]'/>
> 
> or
> 
> <clickElement htmlid="addrelatedlink"/>
> 
>  
> 
> All of them don't fail. But also, non of them leads to a new page
(there 
> isn't a "resulting page" in the results), and the data isn't posted,
so 
> I guess although it can find the button, and it presumes it clicked
it, 
> it doesn't call the JS... any idea?
> 
> Thanks, Noam
> 

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