Dynamic find of hidden control.

[Chakravarthy]

Hi Telerik Team,

We have a sceanrio where we need to identify the Textfield dynamically which is an hidden control, i have used the below code snippet for the same. But it's not working.

HtmlInputHidden text =  ActiveBrowser.Find.ByExpression<HtmlInputHidden>("id=hidClientId");
ActiveBrowser.ContentWindow.SetFocus(); 

Console.WriteLine("Text:"+text); 

Console.ReadLine();
text.ScrollToVisible();
text.Focus();

 

While i am trying to print the "text" in console, it is not printing any value. Please let me know is this one  correct approcah for hidden controls or is there any other one which is workable.

Regards,
Kalyan Uppalapati

[Chakravarthy]

Can you please address the above post.

[Chakravarthy]

Hi Telerik team,

Please reply to the above post if you have any solution. It's blocking my work to be done.

Regards,
Kalyan Uppalapati

[Stoich]

Hi Chakravarthy,
    I apologize for the late reply.

I'm not 100% sure what you're trying to do.
First off don't use:

Console.WriteLine("Text:"+text); 

Console.ReadLine();

Instead use:

Log.Writeline();

This will write directly to the Log file for your test. You will be able to see it when you open the results from your tests.

Also you don't really need this line:

ActiveBrowser.ContentWindow.SetFocus();

I've prepared a little sample test for you. Here's how it looks like in code:

ActiveBrowser.NavigateTo("http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/forms/_INPUT_TYPE_HIDDEN.html");
         HtmlInputHidden text = ActiveBrowser.Find.ByExpression<HtmlInputHidden>("NAME=postingID");
         if (text != null)
         {
             Log.WriteLine("Hidden control value:"+text.Value);
         }
         else { Log.WriteLine("Hidden input couldn't be located"); }

Just paste this code to a coded step and build the test. The test navigates to http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/forms/_INPUT_TYPE_HIDDEN.html
This page contains a hidden control. The test finds this hidden control and the outputs it's value to the Log.
Run the test and take a look at the log file once it finishes.

Let me know if you're having trouble getting this to work!

All the best,

Stoich

the Telerik team