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Selenium not able to click on JQuery Mobile buttons

in jQuery Mobile • 12 years ago

It appears that when a button is formatted using JQuery Mobile, Capybara's Selenium driver thinks the button is not visible. Created a Rails repo demonstrating the problem: 
https://github.com/jevy/JQuery_Mobile_Capybara 
* Changing the button to have 'data-role="none"' works but defeats the purpose * Looking at the firebug css, by inspection it seems fine Jquery's .is(':visible') comes back as true. * Tried "$.fx.off = true" which didn't change anything
 Please help!!

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volker.k

Re: Selenium not able to click on JQuery Mobile buttons

12 years ago

Hi,
I don't know Capybara selenium driver,
but with org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver jQuery mobile works fine.
Here are some examples I use (in Java):

driver.findElement(By.linkText("Back"));
driver().findElement(By.id("button_id"));

What selectors are you (or the capybara driver) using ?

jevyjevje..

Re: Selenium not able to click on JQuery Mobile buttons

12 years ago

I did some digging and can't figure out exactly how Capybara interacts with Selenium. Only hint is "Webdriver" in the bottom corner.

The Capybara dudes think it's a JQ Mobile issue. Here: https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara/issues/359

Any hints?

volker.k

Re: Re: Selenium not able to click on JQuery Mobile buttons

12 years ago

Selenium 2 is using webdriver, so that's good.

Page navigation in jQuery mobile works with ajax, that means when you click a link there is nor full page load being done. jQuery mobile is only changing your div container. This makes testing with selenium a bit tricky.

Some Pseudo Code:

// The first request is a full page load
driver.get("http://your.mobile.app");
//click a link
WebElement myLink = driver.findElement(By.id("mylinkid"));
myLink.click();
//Now you have to wait for something on the new page, because there is no full page load, just ajax
waitFor().elementWithId("id_on_2nd_page");
//Now you can click something on the 2nd Page.

Here is an example how to wait with selenium2:
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/GettingStarted

HTH
Volker

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