Hi, I tried using browser.span(:text, 'Submit').click, It worked.
Thank you all !! On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, July 21, 2015 at 5:24:04 AM UTC-7, Mahesh Mesta wrote: >> >> I'm using watir to perform automated testing for an application and >> trying to click on a submit button once I select options for select list >> and fill up the form.However on clicking the button, it throws element not >> found error >> >> >> The html snippet for button tag >> >> <button type="submit" class="md-primary md-raised md-button md-default- >> theme" ng-transclude=""><span class="ng-binding >> ng-scope">Submit</span><div style="" class="md-ripple-container"></div> >> </button> >> >> The ruby script >> >> require "watir"require "watir-webdriver" >> browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox >> browser.goto 'https://54.69.254.137/webui#/landing' >> browser.driver.manage.window.maximize >> browser.button(:class =>'sign-in md-button md-default-theme').click >> browser.text_field(:id =>'input_001').set('abcad...@example.com') >> browser.text_field(:id =>'input_002').set('password') >> browser.button(:class =>'md-primary md-raised md-button md-default- >> theme').click >> browser.input(:id =>'input_002').when_present.click >> browser.element(aria_label:'What do you want to do?').when_present.click >> browser.element(:id =>'select_option_00G').when_present.click >> browser.element(aria_label:'About what?').when_present.click >> browser.element(:id =>'select_option_00P').when_present.click >> browser.textarea(:id =>'input_00N').when_present.set('Discuss about >> javascript and later test the application??') >> browser.button(:class =>'md-primary md-raised md-button md-default- >> theme').click >> >> It throws the following error >> >> Selenium::WebDriver::Error::ElementNotVisibleError: Element is not >> currently visible and so may not be interacted with >> >> >> I tried using >> >> browser.button(:class =>'md-primary md-raised md-button md-default- >> theme').when_present.click >> >> ,but it will throw time out error.Not able to rectify the error .Plz help >> !! >> > > So the error you are seeing means that webdriver itself is able to find an > element using the criteria you specified, but it believes the element is > not visible to the user (off screen, hidden, or covered by another > element). Webdriver tries very hard to not allow you to do something a > real user could not do, so while it was able to locate the element in the > DOM, if it does not believe that a user could 'see' the button it refuses > to click on it and throws the error you saw. > > There are a few possibilities as to what could cause this in a case where > you can 'see' the button. The most likely is that there is more than one > button in the DOM with the class combination you specified, which is often > the case in fancy sites with multiple 'pop-up' UI elements, Tabs, etc where > DOM elements are appearing and disappearing by tweeks to their css > settings.. > > To check for that, you can get a count of the number of elements that > match your specification > > count = browser.buttons(:class =>'md-primary md-raised md-button > md-default-theme').size > > puts "there are #{count} buttons of the type we are looking for" > > > if the count is larger than 1, then likely watir is finding the first button > that matches (which it will in this case) but that button is hidden. You > will likely want to find a container (e.g. if the UI has tabs, the div that > contains the contents of the active tab) and specify that watir should look > inside that element to find the button you want. which might look something > like > > > browser.div(:name => 'Tab3').button(:class =>'md-primary md-raised md-button > md-default-theme').click > > -- > -- > 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. > -- -- 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.
