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william_roe
Super Contributor
9 years ago

Get All Input Elements on Screen via FindChildByXPath

I've used FindChildByXPath to find first TD with click event (see below) but how do I get all controls on a page of a certain types (i.e. TextBoxes, Images, Tables, etc)?     var page = Sys.Browser...
  • HKosova's avatar
    HKosova
    9 years ago

    Hi William,

     

    Sorry for the late reply. If by "disabled" you mean any of these:

     

    <input type="hidden" .../>
<input type="text" disabled .../>
<input type="text" readonly .../>

    then the query for enabled inputs shoud be something like:

     

    var arr = page.EvaluateXPath("//input[@type!='hidden' and not (@readonly or @disabled)]", true);

     

HKosova's avatar
HKosova
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
9 years ago

The XPath for multiple element types would be like this:

 

//img|//table|//input

Note that XPath always uses HTML tag names (a, input, div) and not TestComplete object types (Link, Textbox). Also, you need to use EvaluateXPath instead of FindChildByXPath to return multiple elements:

 

var arr = page.EvaluateXPath("//img|//table|//input", true);
if (arr != null)
{
  // Convert the result to the JScript array format 
  var allControls = (new VBArray(arr)).toArray();

  ...
}
  • william_roe's avatar
    william_roe
    Super Contributor
    9 years ago

    Thank you very much. Obvsiously I need to learn XPath. One more question:

     

    How do you specify a second predicate for the input where the input is also enabled?

     

        var page = Sys.Browser().Page("*").Panel("primaryWrapper").Section("primaryContent").Frame("*").Section("actionWrapper").Section("actionContent");

    var arr = page.EvaluateXPath("//input[@type!='hidden']", true);

     I've earnestly tried to find the answer online to no avail.

    • HKosova's avatar
      HKosova
      SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
      9 years ago

      Hi William,

       

      Sorry for the late reply. If by "disabled" you mean any of these:

       

      <input type="hidden" .../>
<input type="text" disabled .../>
<input type="text" readonly .../>

      then the query for enabled inputs shoud be something like:

       

      var arr = page.EvaluateXPath("//input[@type!='hidden' and not (@readonly or @disabled)]", true);

       

      • william_roe's avatar
        william_roe
        Super Contributor
        9 years ago

        You are BEYOND awesome.

         

        Thank you!