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click link matching regex for outerHTML
sumeet
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I have a page which lists some items with the same link name, however the outerHTML is includes a unique value. So I need a regex match and click on the relevant link
here is the html i have -
<td>
<a id="recurring_postings:view_scheduled_postings_table:1:recurTransferPostingIdLink" href="#" onmousedown="showPleaseWaitMousedown();" onmouseup="showPleaseWaitMouseup(event);" onclick="document.forms.value='recurring_postings:view_scheduled_postings_table:1:recurTransferPostingIdLink';document.forms.value='ACH_COLLECTION-990000033-110815:19:07:01:136';document.forms.value='batch_payment'; document.forms.submit(); return false;">Batch</a>
</td>
So here link text is "Batch" and it has value as 'ACH_COLLECTION-990000033-110815:19:07:01:136' which can be used to match the pattern
I have tried something like
_click(_link(/Batch/).outerHTML.match(/ACH_COLLECTION-990000033-110810:15:22:03:897/));
and I get ---- [Exception] Error: The parameter passed to _click was not found on the browser
Can somebody help me resolve this?
here is the html i have -
<td>
<a id="recurring_postings:view_scheduled_postings_table:1:recurTransferPostingIdLink" href="#" onmousedown="showPleaseWaitMousedown();" onmouseup="showPleaseWaitMouseup(event);" onclick="document.forms.value='recurring_postings:view_scheduled_postings_table:1:recurTransferPostingIdLink';document.forms.value='ACH_COLLECTION-990000033-110815:19:07:01:136';document.forms.value='batch_payment'; document.forms.submit(); return false;">Batch</a>
</td>
So here link text is "Batch" and it has value as 'ACH_COLLECTION-990000033-110815:19:07:01:136' which can be used to match the pattern
I have tried something like
_click(_link(/Batch/).outerHTML.match(/ACH_COLLECTION-990000033-110810:15:22:03:897/));
and I get ---- [Exception] Error: The parameter passed to _click was not found on the browser
Can somebody help me resolve this?
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We can give you a solution for this, but it looks incorrect to be matching by some value in the onmouseover property. Is it not possible to use _near to find the link near to some other element which is more meaningful?
Regards,
Narayan
I sent you an email with a screenshot, I did tried using near as below, but again it clicked on the first link on the page.
_click(_link(/Batch/), _near(_link(/Batch/).outerHTML.match($sBatch))); //$sBatch is variable which hold the match pattern
I can write a function to use the for loop, match the text with outerHTML and get the id of the link. But I am trying to avoid that route and keep it simple in one liner. So if you have some solution it will be very helpful.
thanks,
Sumeet