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mikej411
Occasional Contributor
10 years ago
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How to verify whether a blinking cursor is currently inside of a text box

I am trying to verify that the text box gets the focus (the blinking cursor gets placed inside of it) after a certain action. I tried to use the Focused property, but it does not seem to work, or the...
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    mikej411
    10 years ago

    Got it. Everything works now, thank you!

     

      var actualFocusedElement = Sys.Browser().Page("*BC/Report*").contentDocument.activeElement.id    
  if(aqString.Contains(actualElement, "saveDialog_tmpl_sfsName", 0, true))
    Log.Message("The blinking cursor is inside of the name text box")
  else
    Log.Error("The blinking cursor is not inside of the name text box")

    I used the actual focused element's ObjectIdentifier (ID) and compared it against the expected ID, utilizing the activeElement jScript function.

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AlexKaras
Community Hero
10 years ago

> I found the following which uses activeElement, but I dont know how I could utilize this inside testcompletes Jscript code: [...]

 

Something like this:

browser.page.contentDocument.activeElement

 

browser.page.contentDocument.activeElement.id seems to return the id of the active element and

browser.page.contentDocument.activeElement.outerHTML returns its html markup.

 

Looks like the thing that might do the job.

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mikej411
Occasional Contributor
10 years ago

Got it. Everything works now, thank you!

 

  var actualFocusedElement = Sys.Browser().Page("*BC/Report*").contentDocument.activeElement.id    
  if(aqString.Contains(actualElement, "saveDialog_tmpl_sfsName", 0, true))
    Log.Message("The blinking cursor is inside of the name text box")
  else
    Log.Error("The blinking cursor is not inside of the name text box")

I used the actual focused element's ObjectIdentifier (ID) and compared it against the expected ID, utilizing the activeElement jScript function.