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fayrehouse
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12 years ago

ObjectIdentifier different in FF/IE to Chrome/Safari?

Hi all, Can anyone suggest why, for "Textarea" objects, the ObjectIdentifier param is "different" in IE/FF to that found by Chrome/Safari? Example: In F/IE: R1C1: Sys.Browser("iexp...
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fayrehouse
Frequent Contributor
12 years ago
Hi Tanya,



I can confirm I'm using 9.31. In Chrome and FF, I was able to ffnd the following, by way of example:




Chrome (via Inspect Element):


 


<textarea name="vehicles[0].vrm" onkeypress="enableDisableCheckbox();" id="0_0" class="fontbgyellowfgblackborder vrmField" autocomplete="off" maxlen="7"></textarea>


 


 


FF (via firebug):


 


<textarea class="fontbgyellowfgblackborder vrmField" id="0_0" onkeypress="enableDisableCheckbox();" name="vehicles[0].vrm" autocomplete="off" maxlen="7"></textarea>








I did get a fairly garbled explanation of sorts from the Devs here - or at least an explanation of why they are using text areas at all in this table - it's to do with copy and paste of data apparently from Excel (if that makes any sense). However, that doesn't to me explain how the names in TC are varying. 



That said, I *have* found a workaround, as shown below - but it WOULD be good to get a bit of understanding why the browsers are acting differently -even if it's to give our Dev's some feedback ;-)



My cross browser workaround:



    var x = 1; // row in table


    Columns = Sys.Browser().Page("https://our.url*").Frame("main").Form("EntryForm").Panel(4).Table(0).Cell(x, 1).FindAllChildren("ObjectType","Textarea",1,true)


    Columns = VBArray(Columns).toArray();


    Columns[4].Keys("[End]![Home][Del]" + RegArray);


 

Thanks for your ongoing help again!



Steve