How to highlight element from Element Explorer in page

[Jan]

Hello,

I have trouble highlighting existing element from the Element Explorer in the page displayed in the browser (the red box/go to DOM).

 

I have tried (from http://docs.telerik.com/teststudio/features/elements-explorer/overview )

> Enable/Disable Highlighting - control the highlighting of elements on the recording surface as they are selected in the tree view. When enabled, an element highlighted in the Elements pane will also be highlighted in the active browser.

It seems that this button is no longer present in the version 2017.1.207.0. There is no button between "Refresh" and "Expand/Collapse button".

> Locate in DOM - jump to this element's position in the DOM when the recording window is loaded.

That doesn't do anything, as far as I can tell. I have opened recording window, it is recording and "Highlight element" button in recording window is toggled on.

 

I can find the element in the DOM explorer in the "Find Element" window (through Edit Element context menu) using Validate button, but even if I find and select it there, it is not highlighted on the loaded page.

 

Thank you for your assistance.

[Elena]

Hi Jan,

Could you please share the page you are testing so that we could try to reproduce the issue on our end. Additionally you could double check if the same behavior encounters against a public accessible page like bing.com for example. 

However I guess the issue is specific to the currently tested application and since this a recording issue I will need to replicate it on my end for further investigation. 

Thanks for your understanding! 

Regards,
Elena Tsvetkova
Telerik by Progress

 

[Frank]

I see this as well with 2017 R1. It seems to be intermittent on IE but is more predominant on FF in my case.

[Jan]

Hi Elena,

I have tried it and it doesn't work even with Bing: see the video https://youtu.be/JA9Wz5XW2Ng

Element in neither highlighted nor located in DOM.

 

[Elena]

Hi Jan,

Thank you for sharing the video. With its help I managed to reproduce the same behavior against Chrome and FF and submitted a bug report on your behalf. Here you could follow its progress, comment, vote, etc. 

I would like to note that meanwhile you could be using IE if it is applicable since the issue is not present against that browser. 

Thank you once again for the cooperation and understanding! 

Regards,
Elena Tsvetkova
Telerik by Progress