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How to ignore invisible DOM Elements
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Hi,
I've got the following problem:
Our product uses the ZK framework with a lot of tabs. In every tab there are buttons with the same images. If a new tab gets opend, zk sets the current tab to "display: none" and opens the new one.
If i want to press one of these buttons via Sahi (with the image-name as selector, e.g.: _image("refresh.png")), it seems that it tries to press the invisible button of the other tab. The button of the visible tab has an higher index (depends on how many tabs are opend).
This problem applies to some other components too.
How can i ignore these invisible DOM-Elements? If i call _click(_image("refresh.png")) i want Sahi to click the (only) visible button with that name.
Stefan
I've got the following problem:
Our product uses the ZK framework with a lot of tabs. In every tab there are buttons with the same images. If a new tab gets opend, zk sets the current tab to "display: none" and opens the new one.
If i want to press one of these buttons via Sahi (with the image-name as selector, e.g.: _image("refresh.png")), it seems that it tries to press the invisible button of the other tab. The button of the visible tab has an higher index (depends on how many tabs are opend).
This problem applies to some other components too.
How can i ignore these invisible DOM-Elements? If i call _click(_image("refresh.png")) i want Sahi to click the (only) visible button with that name.
Stefan
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Please have a look at this post and see if the solution applies to you: http://sahi.co.in/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2124
Regards,
Narayan
That works for me.
Do you already know when the support for conditional filtering will be implemented?
Glad that worked. We will be looking at it in the coming couple of weeks. Should be available in April release.
Regards,
Narayan
When will the April release be available?
This feature is very important to us and i would have to implement the workaround for every element-type.
Is there a patch i could apply on the sahi sourcecode, so it ignores invisible elements by default?
We are working on this on high priority. We will be able to give you an answer by end of day. (We need a way to introduce this feature and still keep the older scripts running.)
Regards,
Narayan
From the April 4th release, we have support for identifying only visible elements.
We have introduced an API: _setStrictVisibilityCheck
Usage:
_setStrictVisibilityCheck(true);
// From now on, only elements which are visible will be
// considered during Sahi's accessor identification.
_setStrictVisibilityCheck(false);
// Will now revert to original behavior of identifying hidden elements too.
Please have a look at
sencha_combobox.sah
and
strict_visible.sah
in userdata/scripts/demo folder to see this API in action.
The API are details are also available here: http://sahi.co.in/w/miscellaneous-apis
Regards,
Narayan
This will sort out lots of issue in easier way..
Cheers,