On Monday, February 2, 2015 at 2:35:24 PM UTC-8, praneetha pagidimarri wrote: > > Hi, > > I've to validate the value of a disabled dropdown on a page. > I used an instance variable to read all the values and used as .text to > validate against the page values. > > Fields which are in enable mode and are text are showing accurate results, > but fields which are in disabled mode with values in dropdown boxes are not > validated. > Can any one suggest on this issue please. >
can you provide sample HTML? Forms that have fields that can be enabled and disabled according to other values often have a lot of JS code that processes things as fields are changed and also when the form is submitted. So potentially a field could be set to a given value by the user, then later disabled when another value is changed. and inspecting the value in that field at that time tells you very little For example say that a form had a checkbox for 'use custom timeout' and a timeout value field that was enabled when the checkbox was checked. The user might be able to enable the checkbox, enter a value, then disable the checkbox, leaving the value they entered just sitting there grayed out. In that case when the form is submitted, the JS code could decide to omit that field entirely, or send a default value. Or it might just send everything, and depend on code on the back end to know it should ignore the custom timeout value when custom timeout is not enabled. Without knowing exactly what the thing is SUPPOSED to do, where the logic is, trying to verify the 'current' value of the field before submitting the form won't tell you if things are working right or not.. Instead you might likely need to monitor the HTTP traffic to see what really got sent, or inspect what data was saved at the back end after the form was submitted. you could do that by inspecting some 'settings' page in the app that displayed the values, or maybe by hitting the DB directly to validate the right things were persisted. -- -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
