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buttons have no value in Internet Explorer

firescarletfirescarlet Members
edited November -1 in Sahi - Open Source
Hi!
While creating our tests with Sahi I had problems to test the scripts in Internet Explorer when they are created with Firefox. I found the problem in the detecting of our submit buttons.
Eg.

<button name="button" value="submit" class="consoleBtn" onclick="send('submit')" onmouseover="showObj('submit')" onmouseout="hideObj('submit')">
<img src="../gfx/submit_enabled.png">
</button>

In Firefox the Sahi detects the button with _submit("button") and the value submit. But Internet Explorer calls detects it only with _button("button") and no value.

It would be great if you could help me.
Best Regards
Chris

Comments

  • narayannarayan Administrators
    Hi Chris,

    If a "type" attribute is not specified on a button tag, FF assumes the type to be "submit", and IE assumes it to be "button". That is the cause of this problem.

    Do the following to consistently record button tags as _button. (We will add this to the next release.)

    1) Open sahi/htdocs/spr/concat.js

    2) Search for
        this.addAD({tag: "BUTTON", type: "button", event:"click", name: "_button", attributes: ["sahiText", "name", "id", "className", "index"], action: "_click", value: "sahiText"});

    and change it to
        this.addAD({tag: "BUTTON", type: null, event:"click", name: "_button", attributes: ["sahiText", "name", "id", "className", "index"], action: "_click", value: "sahiText"});


    3) Search for
        this.addAD({tag: "BUTTON", type: "submit", event:"click", name: "_submit", attributes: ["sahiText", "name", "id", "className", "index"], action: "_click", value: "sahiText"});

    and comment it
    //    this.addAD({tag: "BUTTON", type: "submit", event:"click", name: "_submit", attributes: ["sahiText", "name", "id", "className", "index"], action: "_click", value: "sahiText"});

    4) Search for 
        this.addAD({tag: "BUTTON", type: "reset", event:"click", name: "_reset", attributes: ["sahiText", "name", "id", "className", "index"], action: "_click", value: "sahiText"});

    and comment it
    //    this.addAD({tag: "BUTTON", type: "reset", event:"click", name: "_reset", attributes: ["sahiText", "name", "id", "className", "index"], action: "_click", value: "sahiText"});


    5) Restart Sahi, clear browser cache, and try again.

    Let us know if it works for you.

    Regards,
    Narayan
  • firescarletfirescarlet Members
    Hi Narayan!

    I changed the type of button to null. Now FF and IE detect them as _button("button") but only FF prints the value of the Button.

    I tried to chance value: "sahiText" to value: "value" but in this case IE tells me that the value is the src to the image.

    To comment the reset and submit lines won't work at all, because there is a button with type reset and one with type submit and sahi can't see them when the lines are commented.

    Regards Chris
  • narayannarayan Administrators
    Hi Chris,

    Will have a look at this and get back to you.

    Regards,
    Narayan
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