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shiva_ranabhat
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9 years ago
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Button.Enabled returning True for disabled button

Hi,    I'm having a trouble checking if a button is disabled or not. Please see the attached image for details  (script, gui & test Log).  Usually this feature works fine but not this time.   Th...
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    9 years ago

    Hi Shiva,

     

    Welcome to the 'creative' world of web development... :)

    Like all other guys have already said, there are usually a lot of ways to do this or that thing with the web object and different approaches might be used within the given tested web application depending on development team, used libraries, etc.

    For example, the object may have .Visible property set to True, but be invisible on the page because: its height or width is set to zero; or because some class or style is applied to it (or its parent) that makes it not visible; or because one of its parents is not visible; or...

    Note, that the opposite is also correct: if the parent of some object is not visible (or disabled) this does not necessarily mean that the object itself is not visible (or disabled) as well. So web test code should not rely on the parent's properties, but also check actual properties of the object itself.

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dmiscannon
Frequent Contributor
9 years ago

I tried your code against a webpage with a disabled button and it worked fine. Have you checked the Enabled property of the buttonExcelXls button to see what it shows when it is diplaying as disabled? Is it possible that the button displays as disabled but has a Enabled property of True?

  • Colin_McCrae's avatar
    Colin_McCrae
    Community Hero
    9 years ago

    Check with your dev team.

     

    They may be using some weird method and styling to prevent the button being used rather than the enabled property.

    • Blur's avatar
      Blur
      Contributor
      9 years ago

      My dev team does what Colin said.  Half the time the buttons are enabled but just size 0 or some other odd methods.

      • Colin_McCrae's avatar
        Colin_McCrae
        Community Hero
        9 years ago

        Yep. If I've learned one thing over several years automating software, it's that there is no such thing as "consistency" in development teams!

         

        But if they are using some other mathod to disbale the button, you just need to find out what it is and check for that instead.