Search by Name, Text, XPath or Attribute on the Web Page

Let's consider a simple example: http://www.libraryinformationsystem.org/

Navigator

Navigator object provides several entry points to help finding required element on the current page.

DOMFindByName

Navigator.DOMFindByName(name, tagName, findAll, timeout)

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DOMFindByName looks through all elements checking both name and id attributes. If any matches then it is added to the result list.

In the example page some link elements have id attribute defined:

So we can find such an element on the page using the following snippet:

var lnk = Navigator.DOMFindByName('MainContent_HyperLink1');
lnk.DoClick();

We used only 1st parameter here, others are optional. This means that wildcard (*) used as a tag name and findAll is set to false. So it returns only one found object or null.

We may handle the null case like that:

var lnk = Navigator.DOMFindByName('MainContent_HyperLink1');
if( lnk )
{
    lnk.DoClick();
}

In most cases we don't need findAll when we search by ID or Name because we expect to get a single result.

DOMFindByText

• Navigator.DOMFindByText(text, tagName, findAll, timeout)

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This function is similar to DOMFindByName but it is doing search by node text. Here are some examples:

Navigator.Open("http://www.libraryinformationsystem.org/");
 
var lnk = Navigator.DOMFindByText('View the sample HTML5 Application');
if( lnk )
{
    // If lnk is found - highlight it
    lnk.highlight();
} else {
    Tester.Assert('Link not found', false);
}

There are several links to samples each having text starting with "View the sample".

So we can find all such links and write total count to the report:

Navigator.Open("http://www.libraryinformationsystem.org/");

var lnk = Navigator.DOMFindByText('View the sample', 'a', true);
Tester.Message('View the sample links: '+lnk.length);

Or we may find all links starting with "View" and hightlight on the screen:

Navigator.Open("http://www.libraryinformationsystem.org/");

var lnk = Navigator.DOMFindByText('View', 'a', true);
for(var i=0;i<lnk.length;i++)
{
    lnk[i].highlight();
}

And this piece highlights all such links:

DOMFindByXPath

• Navigator.DOMFindByXPath(xpath, findAll, timeout)

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It is easy to find a link by 'href' attribute like that:

Navigator.Open("http://www.libraryinformationsystem.org/");

var lnkByHref = Navigator.DOMFindByXPath('//a[@href="https://www.inflectra.com/Rapise"]');
if( lnkByHref )
{
    Tester.Message('Link text: '+lnkByHref.GetNodeText());
}

DOMFindByAttributeValue

• Navigator.DOMFindByAttributeValue(attrName, attrValue, findAll, timeout, timeout)

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Navigator.Open("http://www.libraryinformationsystem.org/");

var logoImg = Navigator.DOMFindByAttributeValue('alt', 'Inflectra');
if(logoImg)
{
    logoImg.DoClick();
}