_click and visibility

tower120

Hi!

I have one simple question. When we use _click - it wait till element appear on the page, but does it wait for element visibility? Or I should do something like this:

_wait(5000, _isVisible( _byId("myElement") ));
_click ( _byId("myElement"));

?

narayan

Hi,

It waits till availability not visibility. If it causes a problem, then add the wait, else don't bother.

You can make Sahi honour only visible elements by setting
element.visibility_check.strict=true
in sahi/userdata/config/userdata.properties

But use this with caution: when hidden elements become visible, they can change the indexing of other elements.

Regards,
Narayan

tower120

"they can change the indexing of other elements."

What indexing? What this means? This will affect on speed only?

narayan

About indexing:

If you have 3 textboxes they will be indexed as _textbox(0) _textbox(1) _textbox(2)

If you make _textbox(1) hidden, then:

with strict visibility false, you will see the other two as _textbox(0) _textbox(2)

with strict visibility true, you will see the other two as _textbox(0) _textbox(1)

So you see that _textbox(2) is now identified as _textbox(1) because the middle one became invisible.

This generally does not affect the speed.

Hope that helps,

Regards,
Narayan