Get All Input Elements on Screen via FindChildByXPath

[william_roe]

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().Page("*");

  // finds first td with click event
  var obj = page.FindChildByXPath("//table[@id='grdCribPrivileges_DXMainTable']//td[text()='" + Privileges[i] + "']/parent::node()/td[@onclick]", true);

I need to write the test such that I test all input controls which are disabled and don't want to explicitly map each field and rely on devs to tell me when a new field is added.

Can anyone help help with FindChildByXPath statement below to find all Textboxes, Images, Tables, etc?

function ValidateAllControlsDisabled(){
    // retrieves reference to browser
    var page = Sys.Browser().Page("*");

    // retrieves all controls on page which should be disalbed (textbox, tables, images, etc)
    var allControls = page.FindChildByXPath("//Textbox", true); // NEED HELP HERE

    for (var i = 0; i < allControls.length; i++) {
        // return false if any control not disabled    
    }
}

[HKosova]

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]

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 · Accepted solution]

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]

You are BEYOND awesome.

Thank you!