Cannot find HTMLAnchor by ID

[Ronan]

Hi guys, I dont quite understand the problem below.

I has a hyperlink element in HTML like this (telerik calls HTMLAnchor).

<a href="#" id="btnSubmit" >Submit</a>​

Now, what I all need that I want to find the <a> element by using HTMLAnchor, then click on it.

Here is my vb code in my Telerik script

~~~~~

Dim btnSubmit As ArtOfTest.WebAii.Controls.HtmlControls.HtmlAnchor
Dim alertDialog__1 As AlertDialog = AlertDialog.CreateAlertDialog(ActiveBrowser, DialogButton.OK)
alertDialog__1.HandlerDelegate = New DialogHandlerDelegate(AddressOf MyCustomAlertHandler)
Manager.DialogMonitor.AddDialog(alertDialog__1)

ActiveBrowser.Window.SetFocus
ActiveBrowser.RefreshDomTree
btnSubmit=Manager.ActiveBrowser.Find.ById("btnSubmit")
Assert.IsNotNull(btnSubmit,"Cannot find the Submit button")
btnSubmit.Click 
alertDialog__1.WaitUntilHandled(50000)​

 ~~~~~

BUT, the problem is that btnSubmit is NULL. Look like it can not find the element

Log file:

Value of type 'ArtOfTest.WebAii.ObjectModel.Element' cannot be converted to 'ArtOfTest.WebAii.Controls.HtmlControls.HtmlAnchor'.

Any suggestion for me, guys.

Thanks

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[Pravallika]

Hi,

In your code, Dim btnSubmit As ArtOfTest.WebAii.Controls.HtmlControls.HtmlAnchor (You declared it as HtmlControl of type HtmlAnchor.

Later, btnSubmit=Manager.ActiveBrowser.Find.ById("btnSubmit") (This expression returns an object of type 'Element')

The variable is not able to cast from HtmlAnchor to Element, which is why the exception in log as u mentioned (Value of type 'ArtOfTest.WebAii.ObjectModel.Element' cannot be converted to 'ArtOfTest.WebAii.Controls.HtmlControls.HtmlAnchor'.)

You may want to try adding the element to elements explorer and use it as :

btnSubmit = Pages.PageName.Elementname;

Please give it a try!

 

Thanks,

Pravallika.

[Ronan]

[Updating infomation]

I changed the line

btnSubmit=Manager.ActiveBrowser.Find.ById("btnSubmit")​
to 

btnSubmit=Manager.ActiveBrowser.Find.ById(Of HtmlAnchor)("btnSubmit")

and the error "cannot be converted" above is gone.
but, I have another one

ArtOfTest.Common.Exceptions.AssertException: Cannot find the Submit button - [Expected:Not Null],[Actual:Null]
   at ArtOfTest.Common.UnitTesting.Assert.IsNotNull(Object value, String message)​

[Pravallika]

Dim abc As HtmlAnchor = Pages.Google.AnchorElement

Assert.IsNotNull(abc)

 

This works for me. May be increase your wait time or RefreshDomTree() before this call.

[Ronan]

Hi Pravallika,

I have updated as your the first suggestion, and my new code as shown below

Dim btnSubmit As ArtOfTest.WebAii.Controls.HtmlControls.HtmlSpan
Dim alertDialog__1 As AlertDialog = AlertDialog.CreateAlertDialog(ActiveBrowser, DialogButton.OK)
alertDialog__1.HandlerDelegate = New DialogHandlerDelegate(AddressOf MyCustomAlertHandler)<br>Manager.DialogMonitor.AddDialog(alertDialog__1)
ActiveBrowser.Window.SetFocus
ActiveBrowser.RefreshDomTree
btnSubmit=Pages.userEditPage.SubmitSpan<br>Assert.IsNotNull(btnSubmit,"Cannot find the Submit button")
btnSubmit.Click
alertDialog__1.WaitUntilHandled(5000)

And now I can detect the expected element and click on it successfully. :D

OK, next problem is that, after clicking on Submit button, there is an alert popup of the browser, and Telerik cannot click on OK button to close the alert popup (OK button of the alert popup).

I got the exception message like this

Exception thrown executing coded step: '[HandleBrowserDialog] : Handle Browser Alert Dialog'.
InnerException:
ArtOfTest.WebAii.Exceptions.ExecuteCommandException: ExecuteCommand failed!
BrowserCommand (Type:'Information',Info:'DocumentMarkup',Action:'NotSet',Target:'null',Data:'',ClientId:'4cc3ea42-ee11-42fc-954f-eef38f38616b',HasFrames:'False',FramesInfo:'',TargetFrameIndex:'-1',InError:'False',Response:'')
InnerException: System.TimeoutException: Timed out waiting for command to be handled

[Ronan]

Oops, Look like there is no functionality to edit my own post. Sorry for the wrong formatted snippet code :(