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Interface Selenium

public interface Selenium

Defines an object that runs Selenium commands.

Element Locators

Element Locators tell Selenium which HTML element a command refers to. The format of a locator is:

locatorType=argument

We support the following strategies for locating elements:

identifier=id: Select the element with the specified @id attribute. If no match is found, select the first element whose @name attribute is id. (This is normally the default; see below.)
id=id: Select the element with the specified @id attribute.
name=name: Select the first element with the specified @name attribute.
- username
- name=username
The name may optionally be followed by one or more element-filters, separated from the name by whitespace. If the filterType is not specified, value is assumed.
- name=flavour value=chocolate
dom=javascriptExpression: Find an element by evaluating the specified string. This allows you to traverse the HTML Document Object Model using JavaScript. Note that you must not return a value in this string; simply make it the last expression in the block.
- dom=document.forms['myForm'].myDropdown
- dom=document.images[56]
- dom=function foo() { return document.links[1]; }; foo();
xpath=xpathExpression: Locate an element using an XPath expression.
- xpath=//img[@alt='The image alt text']
- xpath=//table[@id='table1']//tr[4]/td[2]
- xpath=//a[contains(@href,'#id1')]
- xpath=//a[contains(@href,'#id1')]/@class
- xpath=(//table[@class='stylee'])//th[text()='theHeaderText']/../td
- xpath=//input[@name='name2' and @value='yes']
- xpath=//*[text()="right"]
link=textPattern: Select the link (anchor) element which contains text matching the specified pattern.
- link=The link text
css=cssSelectorSyntax: Select the element using css selectors. Please refer to CSS2 selectors, CSS3 selectors for more information. You can also check the TestCssLocators test in the selenium test suite for an example of usage, which is included in the downloaded selenium core package.
- css=a[href="#id3"]
- css=span#firstChild + span
Currently the css selector locator supports all css1, css2 and css3 selectors except namespace in css3, some pseudo classes(:nth-of-type, :nth-last-of-type, :first-of-type, :last-of-type, :only-of-type, :visited, :hover, :active, :focus, :indeterminate) and pseudo elements(::first-line, ::first-letter, ::selection, ::before, ::after).
ui=uiSpecifierString: Locate an element by resolving the UI specifier string to another locator, and evaluating it. See the Selenium UI-Element Reference for more details.
- ui=loginPages::loginButton()
- ui=settingsPages::toggle(label=Hide Email)
- ui=forumPages::postBody(index=2)//a[2]

Without an explicit locator prefix, Selenium uses the following default strategies:

dom, for locators starting with "document."
xpath, for locators starting with "//"
identifier, otherwise

Element Filters

Element filters can be used with a locator to refine a list of candidate elements. They are currently used only in the 'name' element-locator.

Filters look much like locators, ie.

filterType=argument

Supported element-filters are:

value=valuePattern

Matches elements based on their values. This is particularly useful for refining a list of similarly-named toggle-buttons.

index=index

Selects a single element based on its position in the list (offset from zero).

String-match Patterns

Various Pattern syntaxes are available for matching string values:

glob:pattern: Match a string against a "glob" (aka "wildmat") pattern. "Glob" is a kind of limited regular-expression syntax typically used in command-line shells. In a glob pattern, "*" represents any sequence of characters, and "?" represents any single character. Glob patterns match against the entire string.
regexp:regexp: Match a string using a regular-expression. The full power of JavaScript regular-expressions is available.
regexpi:regexpi: Match a string using a case-insensitive regular-expression.
exact:string: Match a string exactly, verbatim, without any of that fancy wildcard stuff.

If no pattern prefix is specified, Selenium assumes that it's a "glob" pattern.

For commands that return multiple values (such as verifySelectOptions), the string being matched is a comma-separated list of the return values, where both commas and backslashes in the values are backslash-escaped. When providing a pattern, the optional matching syntax (i.e. glob, regexp, etc.) is specified once, as usual, at the beginning of the pattern.

Method Summary
`void`	`addCustomRequestHeader(String key, String value)` Tells the Selenium server to add the specificed key and value as a custom outgoing request header.
`void`	`addLocationStrategy(String strategyName, String functionDefinition)` Defines a new function for Selenium to locate elements on the page.
`void`	`addScript(String scriptContent, String scriptTagId)` Loads script content into a new script tag in the Selenium document.
`void`	`addSelection(String locator, String optionLocator)` Add a selection to the set of selected options in a multi-select element using an option locator.
`void`	`allowNativeXpath(String allow)` Specifies whether Selenium should use the native in-browser implementation of XPath (if any native version is available); if you pass "false" to this function, we will always use our pure-JavaScript xpath library.
`void`	`altKeyDown()` Press the alt key and hold it down until doAltUp() is called or a new page is loaded.
`void`	`altKeyUp()` Release the alt key.
`void`	`answerOnNextPrompt(String answer)` Instructs Selenium to return the specified answer string in response to the next JavaScript prompt [window.prompt()].
`void`	`assignId(String locator, String identifier)` Temporarily sets the "id" attribute of the specified element, so you can locate it in the future using its ID rather than a slow/complicated XPath.
`void`	`attachFile(String fieldLocator, String fileLocator)` Sets a file input (upload) field to the file listed in fileLocator
`void`	`captureEntirePageScreenshot(String filename, String kwargs)` Saves the entire contents of the current window canvas to a PNG file.
`String`	`captureEntirePageScreenshotToString(String kwargs)` Downloads a screenshot of the browser current window canvas to a based 64 encoded PNG file.
`String`	`captureNetworkTraffic(String type)` Returns the network traffic seen by the browser, including headers, AJAX requests, status codes, and timings.
`void`	`captureScreenshot(String filename)` Captures a PNG screenshot to the specified file.
`String`	`captureScreenshotToString()` Capture a PNG screenshot.
`void`	`check(String locator)` Check a toggle-button (checkbox/radio)
`void`	`chooseCancelOnNextConfirmation()` By default, Selenium's overridden window.confirm() function will return true, as if the user had manually clicked OK; after running this command, the next call to confirm() will return false, as if the user had clicked Cancel.
`void`	`chooseOkOnNextConfirmation()` Undo the effect of calling chooseCancelOnNextConfirmation.
`void`	`click(String locator)` Clicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button.
`void`	`clickAt(String locator, String coordString)` Clicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button.
`void`	`close()` Simulates the user clicking the "close" button in the titlebar of a popup window or tab.
`void`	`contextMenu(String locator)` Simulates opening the context menu for the specified element (as might happen if the user "right-clicked" on the element).
`void`	`contextMenuAt(String locator, String coordString)` Simulates opening the context menu for the specified element (as might happen if the user "right-clicked" on the element).
`void`	`controlKeyDown()` Press the control key and hold it down until doControlUp() is called or a new page is loaded.
`void`	`controlKeyUp()` Release the control key.
`void`	`createCookie(String nameValuePair, String optionsString)` Create a new cookie whose path and domain are same with those of current page under test, unless you specified a path for this cookie explicitly.
`void`	`deleteAllVisibleCookies()` Calls deleteCookie with recurse=true on all cookies visible to the current page.
`void`	`deleteCookie(String name, String optionsString)` Delete a named cookie with specified path and domain.
`void`	`deselectPopUp()` Selects the main window.
`void`	`doubleClick(String locator)` Double clicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button.
`void`	`doubleClickAt(String locator, String coordString)` Doubleclicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button.
`void`	`dragAndDrop(String locator, String movementsString)` Drags an element a certain distance and then drops it
`void`	`dragAndDropToObject(String locatorOfObjectToBeDragged, String locatorOfDragDestinationObject)` Drags an element and drops it on another element
`void`	`dragdrop(String locator, String movementsString)` deprecated - use dragAndDrop instead
`void`	`fireEvent(String locator, String eventName)` Explicitly simulate an event, to trigger the corresponding "onevent" handler.
`void`	`focus(String locator)` Move the focus to the specified element; for example, if the element is an input field, move the cursor to that field.
`String`	`getAlert()` Retrieves the message of a JavaScript alert generated during the previous action, or fail if there were no alerts.
`String[]`	`getAllButtons()` Returns the IDs of all buttons on the page.
`String[]`	`getAllFields()` Returns the IDs of all input fields on the page.
`String[]`	`getAllLinks()` Returns the IDs of all links on the page.
`String[]`	`getAllWindowIds()` Returns the IDs of all windows that the browser knows about.
`String[]`	`getAllWindowNames()` Returns the names of all windows that the browser knows about.
`String[]`	`getAllWindowTitles()` Returns the titles of all windows that the browser knows about.
`String`	`getAttribute(String attributeLocator)` Gets the value of an element attribute.
`String[]`	`getAttributeFromAllWindows(String attributeName)` Returns every instance of some attribute from all known windows.
`String`	`getBodyText()` Gets the entire text of the page.
`String`	`getConfirmation()` Retrieves the message of a JavaScript confirmation dialog generated during the previous action.
`String`	`getCookie()` Return all cookies of the current page under test.
`String`	`getCookieByName(String name)` Returns the value of the cookie with the specified name, or throws an error if the cookie is not present.
`Number`	`getCssCount(String css)` Returns the number of nodes that match the specified css selector, eg.
`Number`	`getCursorPosition(String locator)` Retrieves the text cursor position in the given input element or textarea; beware, this may not work perfectly on all browsers.
`Number`	`getElementHeight(String locator)` Retrieves the height of an element
`Number`	`getElementIndex(String locator)` Get the relative index of an element to its parent (starting from 0).
`Number`	`getElementPositionLeft(String locator)` Retrieves the horizontal position of an element
`Number`	`getElementPositionTop(String locator)` Retrieves the vertical position of an element
`Number`	`getElementWidth(String locator)` Retrieves the width of an element
`String`	`getEval(String script)` Gets the result of evaluating the specified JavaScript snippet.
`String`	`getExpression(String expression)` Returns the specified expression.
`String`	`getHtmlSource()` Returns the entire HTML source between the opening and closing "html" tags.
`String`	`getLocation()` Gets the absolute URL of the current page.
`String`	`getLog()` Get RC logs associated with this session.
`Number`	`getMouseSpeed()` Returns the number of pixels between "mousemove" events during dragAndDrop commands (default=10).
`String`	`getPrompt()` Retrieves the message of a JavaScript question prompt dialog generated during the previous action.
`String`	`getSelectedId(String selectLocator)` Gets option element ID for selected option in the specified select element.
`String[]`	`getSelectedIds(String selectLocator)` Gets all option element IDs for selected options in the specified select or multi-select element.
`String`	`getSelectedIndex(String selectLocator)` Gets option index (option number, starting at 0) for selected option in the specified select element.
`String[]`	`getSelectedIndexes(String selectLocator)` Gets all option indexes (option number, starting at 0) for selected options in the specified select or multi-select element.
`String`	`getSelectedLabel(String selectLocator)` Gets option label (visible text) for selected option in the specified select element.
`String[]`	`getSelectedLabels(String selectLocator)` Gets all option labels (visible text) for selected options in the specified select or multi-select element.
`String`	`getSelectedValue(String selectLocator)` Gets option value (value attribute) for selected option in the specified select element.
`String[]`	`getSelectedValues(String selectLocator)` Gets all option values (value attributes) for selected options in the specified select or multi-select element.
`String[]`	`getSelectOptions(String selectLocator)` Gets all option labels in the specified select drop-down.
`String`	`getSpeed()` Get execution speed (i.e., get the millisecond length of the delay following each selenium operation).
`String`	`getTable(String tableCellAddress)` Gets the text from a cell of a table.
`String`	`getText(String locator)` Gets the text of an element.
`String`	`getTitle()` Gets the title of the current page.
`String`	`getValue(String locator)` Gets the (whitespace-trimmed) value of an input field (or anything else with a value parameter).
`boolean`	`getWhetherThisFrameMatchFrameExpression(String currentFrameString, String target)` Determine whether current/locator identify the frame containing this running code.
`boolean`	`getWhetherThisWindowMatchWindowExpression(String currentWindowString, String target)` Determine whether currentWindowString plus target identify the window containing this running code.
`Number`	`getXpathCount(String xpath)` Returns the number of nodes that match the specified xpath, eg.
`void`	`goBack()` Simulates the user clicking the "back" button on their browser.
`void`	`highlight(String locator)` Briefly changes the backgroundColor of the specified element yellow.
`void`	`ignoreAttributesWithoutValue(String ignore)` Specifies whether Selenium will ignore xpath attributes that have no value, i.e.
`boolean`	`isAlertPresent()` Has an alert occurred?
`boolean`	`isChecked(String locator)` Gets whether a toggle-button (checkbox/radio) is checked.
`boolean`	`isConfirmationPresent()` Has confirm() been called?
`boolean`	`isCookiePresent(String name)` Returns true if a cookie with the specified name is present, or false otherwise.
`boolean`	`isEditable(String locator)` Determines whether the specified input element is editable, ie hasn't been disabled.
`boolean`	`isElementPresent(String locator)` Verifies that the specified element is somewhere on the page.
`boolean`	`isOrdered(String locator1, String locator2)` Check if these two elements have same parent and are ordered siblings in the DOM.
`boolean`	`isPromptPresent()` Has a prompt occurred?
`boolean`	`isSomethingSelected(String selectLocator)` Determines whether some option in a drop-down menu is selected.
`boolean`	`isTextPresent(String pattern)` Verifies that the specified text pattern appears somewhere on the rendered page shown to the user.
`boolean`	`isVisible(String locator)` Determines if the specified element is visible.
`void`	`keyDown(String locator, String keySequence)` Simulates a user pressing a key (without releasing it yet).
`void`	`keyDownNative(String keycode)` Simulates a user pressing a key (without releasing it yet) by sending a native operating system keystroke.
`void`	`keyPress(String locator, String keySequence)` Simulates a user pressing and releasing a key.
`void`	`keyPressNative(String keycode)` Simulates a user pressing and releasing a key by sending a native operating system keystroke.
`void`	`keyUp(String locator, String keySequence)` Simulates a user releasing a key.
`void`	`keyUpNative(String keycode)` Simulates a user releasing a key by sending a native operating system keystroke.
`void`	`metaKeyDown()` Press the meta key and hold it down until doMetaUp() is called or a new page is loaded.
`void`	`metaKeyUp()` Release the meta key.
`void`	`mouseDown(String locator)` Simulates a user pressing the left mouse button (without releasing it yet) on the specified element.
`void`	`mouseDownAt(String locator, String coordString)` Simulates a user pressing the left mouse button (without releasing it yet) at the specified location.
`void`	`mouseDownRight(String locator)` Simulates a user pressing the right mouse button (without releasing it yet) on the specified element.
`void`	`mouseDownRightAt(String locator, String coordString)` Simulates a user pressing the right mouse button (without releasing it yet) at the specified location.
`void`	`mouseMove(String locator)` Simulates a user pressing the mouse button (without releasing it yet) on the specified element.
`void`	`mouseMoveAt(String locator, String coordString)` Simulates a user pressing the mouse button (without releasing it yet) on the specified element.
`void`	`mouseOut(String locator)` Simulates a user moving the mouse pointer away from the specified element.
`void`	`mouseOver(String locator)` Simulates a user hovering a mouse over the specified element.
`void`	`mouseUp(String locator)` Simulates the event that occurs when the user releases the mouse button (i.e., stops holding the button down) on the specified element.
`void`	`mouseUpAt(String locator, String coordString)` Simulates the event that occurs when the user releases the mouse button (i.e., stops holding the button down) at the specified location.
`void`	`mouseUpRight(String locator)` Simulates the event that occurs when the user releases the right mouse button (i.e., stops holding the button down) on the specified element.
`void`	`mouseUpRightAt(String locator, String coordString)` Simulates the event that occurs when the user releases the right mouse button (i.e., stops holding the button down) at the specified location.
`void`	`open(String url)` Opens an URL in the test frame.
`void`	`open(String url, String ignoreResponseCode)` Opens an URL in the test frame.
`void`	`openWindow(String url, String windowID)` Opens a popup window (if a window with that ID isn't already open).
`void`	`refresh()` Simulates the user clicking the "Refresh" button on their browser.
`void`	`removeAllSelections(String locator)` Unselects all of the selected options in a multi-select element.
`void`	`removeScript(String scriptTagId)` Removes a script tag from the Selenium document identified by the given id.
`void`	`removeSelection(String locator, String optionLocator)` Remove a selection from the set of selected options in a multi-select element using an option locator.
`String`	`retrieveLastRemoteControlLogs()` Retrieve the last messages logged on a specific remote control.
`void`	`rollup(String rollupName, String kwargs)` Executes a command rollup, which is a series of commands with a unique name, and optionally arguments that control the generation of the set of commands.
`void`	`runScript(String script)` Creates a new "script" tag in the body of the current test window, and adds the specified text into the body of the command.
`void`	`select(String selectLocator, String optionLocator)` Select an option from a drop-down using an option locator.
`void`	`selectFrame(String locator)` Selects a frame within the current window.
`void`	`selectPopUp(String windowID)` Simplifies the process of selecting a popup window (and does not offer functionality beyond what `selectWindow()` already provides).
`void`	`selectWindow(String windowID)` Selects a popup window using a window locator; once a popup window has been selected, all commands go to that window.
`void`	`setBrowserLogLevel(String logLevel)` Sets the threshold for browser-side logging messages; log messages beneath this threshold will be discarded.
`void`	`setContext(String context)` Writes a message to the status bar and adds a note to the browser-side log.
`void`	`setCursorPosition(String locator, String position)` Moves the text cursor to the specified position in the given input element or textarea.
`void`	`setExtensionJs(String extensionJs)` Sets the per-session extension Javascript
`void`	`setMouseSpeed(String pixels)` Configure the number of pixels between "mousemove" events during dragAndDrop commands (default=10).
`void`	`setSpeed(String value)` Set execution speed (i.e., set the millisecond length of a delay which will follow each selenium operation).
`void`	`setTimeout(String timeout)` Specifies the amount of time that Selenium will wait for actions to complete.
`void`	`shiftKeyDown()` Press the shift key and hold it down until doShiftUp() is called or a new page is loaded.
`void`	`shiftKeyUp()` Release the shift key.
`void`	`showContextualBanner()` Shows in the RemoteRunner a banner for the current test The banner is 'classname : methodname' where those two are derived from the caller The method name will be unCamelCased with the insertion of spaces at word boundaries
`void`	`showContextualBanner(String className, String methodName)` Shows in the RemoteRunner a banner for the current test The banner is 'classname : methodname' The method name will be unCamelCased with the insertion of spaces at word boundaries
`void`	`shutDownSeleniumServer()` Kills the running Selenium Server and all browser sessions.
`void`	`start()` Launches the browser with a new Selenium session
`void`	`start(Object optionsObject)` Starts a new Selenium testing session with a configuration options object
`void`	`start(String optionsString)` Starts a new Selenium testing session with a String, representing a configuration
`void`	`stop()` Ends the test session, killing the browser
`void`	`submit(String formLocator)` Submit the specified form.
`void`	`type(String locator, String value)` Sets the value of an input field, as though you typed it in.
`void`	`typeKeys(String locator, String value)` Simulates keystroke events on the specified element, as though you typed the value key-by-key.
`void`	`uncheck(String locator)` Uncheck a toggle-button (checkbox/radio)
`void`	`useXpathLibrary(String libraryName)` Allows choice of one of the available libraries.
`void`	`waitForCondition(String script, String timeout)` Runs the specified JavaScript snippet repeatedly until it evaluates to "true".
`void`	`waitForFrameToLoad(String frameAddress, String timeout)` Waits for a new frame to load.
`void`	`waitForPageToLoad(String timeout)` Waits for a new page to load.
`void`	`waitForPopUp(String windowID, String timeout)` Waits for a popup window to appear and load up.
`void`	`windowFocus()` Gives focus to the currently selected window
`void`	`windowMaximize()` Resize currently selected window to take up the entire screen

Method Detail

setExtensionJs

void setExtensionJs(String extensionJs)

Sets the per-session extension Javascript

start

void start()

Launches the browser with a new Selenium session

start

void start(String optionsString)

Starts a new Selenium testing session with a String, representing a configuration

start

void start(Object optionsObject)

Starts a new Selenium testing session with a configuration options object

stop

void stop()

Ends the test session, killing the browser

showContextualBanner

void showContextualBanner()

Shows in the RemoteRunner a banner for the current test The banner is 'classname : methodname' where those two are derived from the caller The method name will be unCamelCased with the insertion of spaces at word boundaries

showContextualBanner

void showContextualBanner(String className,
                          String methodName)

Shows in the RemoteRunner a banner for the current test The banner is 'classname : methodname' The method name will be unCamelCased with the insertion of spaces at word boundaries

click

void click(String locator)

Clicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button. If the click action causes a new page to load (like a link usually does), call waitForPageToLoad.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator

doubleClick

void doubleClick(String locator)

Double clicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button. If the double click action causes a new page to load (like a link usually does), call waitForPageToLoad.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator

contextMenu

void contextMenu(String locator)

Simulates opening the context menu for the specified element (as might happen if the user "right-clicked" on the element).

Parameters:: locator - an element locator

clickAt

void clickAt(String locator,
             String coordString)

Clicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button. If the click action causes a new page to load (like a link usually does), call waitForPageToLoad.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator; coordString - specifies the x,y position (i.e. - 10,20) of the mouse event relative to the element returned by the locator.

doubleClickAt

void doubleClickAt(String locator,
                   String coordString)

Doubleclicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button. If the action causes a new page to load (like a link usually does), call waitForPageToLoad.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator; coordString - specifies the x,y position (i.e. - 10,20) of the mouse event relative to the element returned by the locator.

contextMenuAt

void contextMenuAt(String locator,
                   String coordString)

Simulates opening the context menu for the specified element (as might happen if the user "right-clicked" on the element).

Parameters:: locator - an element locator; coordString - specifies the x,y position (i.e. - 10,20) of the mouse event relative to the element returned by the locator.

fireEvent

void fireEvent(String locator,
               String eventName)

Explicitly simulate an event, to trigger the corresponding "onevent" handler.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator; eventName - the event name, e.g. "focus" or "blur"

focus

void focus(String locator)

Move the focus to the specified element; for example, if the element is an input field, move the cursor to that field.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator

keyPress

void keyPress(String locator,
              String keySequence)

Simulates a user pressing and releasing a key.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator; keySequence - Either be a string( "\" followed by the numeric keycode of the key to be pressed, normally the ASCII value of that key), or a single character. For example: " w", "\119".

shiftKeyDown

void shiftKeyDown()

Press the shift key and hold it down until doShiftUp() is called or a new page is loaded.

shiftKeyUp

void shiftKeyUp()

Release the shift key.

metaKeyDown

void metaKeyDown()

Press the meta key and hold it down until doMetaUp() is called or a new page is loaded.

metaKeyUp

void metaKeyUp()

Release the meta key.

altKeyDown

void altKeyDown()

Press the alt key and hold it down until doAltUp() is called or a new page is loaded.

altKeyUp

void altKeyUp()

Release the alt key.

controlKeyDown

void controlKeyDown()

Press the control key and hold it down until doControlUp() is called or a new page is loaded.

controlKeyUp

void controlKeyUp()

Release the control key.

keyDown

void keyDown(String locator,
             String keySequence)

Simulates a user pressing a key (without releasing it yet).

Parameters:: locator - an element locator; keySequence - Either be a string( "\" followed by the numeric keycode of the key to be pressed, normally the ASCII value of that key), or a single character. For example: " w", "\119".

keyUp

void keyUp(String locator,
           String keySequence)

Simulates a user releasing a key.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator; keySequence - Either be a string( "\" followed by the numeric keycode of the key to be pressed, normally the ASCII value of that key), or a single character. For example: " w", "\119".

mouseOver

void mouseOver(String locator)

Simulates a user hovering a mouse over the specified element.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator

mouseOut

void mouseOut(String locator)

Simulates a user moving the mouse pointer away from the specified element.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator

mouseDown

void mouseDown(String locator)

Simulates a user pressing the left mouse button (without releasing it yet) on the specified element.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator

mouseDownRight

void mouseDownRight(String locator)

Simulates a user pressing the right mouse button (without releasing it yet) on the specified element.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator

mouseDownAt

void mouseDownAt(String locator,
                 String coordString)

Simulates a user pressing the left mouse button (without releasing it yet) at the specified location.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator; coordString - specifies the x,y position (i.e. - 10,20) of the mouse event relative to the element returned by the locator.

mouseDownRightAt

void mouseDownRightAt(String locator,
                      String coordString)

Simulates a user pressing the right mouse button (without releasing it yet) at the specified location.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator; coordString - specifies the x,y position (i.e. - 10,20) of the mouse event relative to the element returned by the locator.

mouseUp

void mouseUp(String locator)

Simulates the event that occurs when the user releases the mouse button (i.e., stops holding the button down) on the specified element.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator

mouseUpRight

void mouseUpRight(String locator)

Simulates the event that occurs when the user releases the right mouse button (i.e., stops holding the button down) on the specified element.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator

mouseUpAt

void mouseUpAt(String locator,
               String coordString)

Simulates the event that occurs when the user releases the mouse button (i.e., stops holding the button down) at the specified location.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator; coordString - specifies the x,y position (i.e. - 10,20) of the mouse event relative to the element returned by the locator.

mouseUpRightAt

void mouseUpRightAt(String locator,
                    String coordString)

Simulates the event that occurs when the user releases the right mouse button (i.e., stops holding the button down) at the specified location.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator; coordString - specifies the x,y position (i.e. - 10,20) of the mouse event relative to the element returned by the locator.

mouseMove

void mouseMove(String locator)

Simulates a user pressing the mouse button (without releasing it yet) on the specified element.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator

mouseMoveAt

void mouseMoveAt(String locator,
                 String coordString)

Simulates a user pressing the mouse button (without releasing it yet) on the specified element.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator; coordString - specifies the x,y position (i.e. - 10,20) of the mouse event relative to the element returned by the locator.

type

void type(String locator,
          String value)

Sets the value of an input field, as though you typed it in.

Can also be used to set the value of combo boxes, check boxes, etc. In these cases, value should be the value of the option selected, not the visible text.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator; value - the value to type

typeKeys

void typeKeys(String locator,
              String value)

Simulates keystroke events on the specified element, as though you typed the value key-by-key.

This is a convenience method for calling keyDown, keyUp, keyPress for every character in the specified string; this is useful for dynamic UI widgets (like auto-completing combo boxes) that require explicit key events.

Unlike the simple "type" command, which forces the specified value into the page directly, this command may or may not have any visible effect, even in cases where typing keys would normally have a visible effect. For example, if you use "typeKeys" on a form element, you may or may not see the results of what you typed in the field.

In some cases, you may need to use the simple "type" command to set the value of the field and then the "typeKeys" command to send the keystroke events corresponding to what you just typed.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator; value - the value to type

setSpeed

void setSpeed(String value)

Set execution speed (i.e., set the millisecond length of a delay which will follow each selenium operation). By default, there is no such delay, i.e., the delay is 0 milliseconds.

Parameters:: value - the number of milliseconds to pause after operation

getSpeed

String getSpeed()

Get execution speed (i.e., get the millisecond length of the delay following each selenium operation). By default, there is no such delay, i.e., the delay is 0 milliseconds. See also setSpeed.

Returns:: the execution speed in milliseconds.

getLog

String getLog()

Get RC logs associated with this session.

Returns:: the remote control logs associated with this session

check

void check(String locator)

Check a toggle-button (checkbox/radio)

Parameters:: locator - an element locator

uncheck

void uncheck(String locator)

Uncheck a toggle-button (checkbox/radio)

Parameters:: locator - an element locator

select

void select(String selectLocator,
            String optionLocator)

Select an option from a drop-down using an option locator.

Option locators provide different ways of specifying options of an HTML Select element (e.g. for selecting a specific option, or for asserting that the selected option satisfies a specification). There are several forms of Select Option Locator.

label=labelPattern: matches options based on their labels, i.e. the visible text. (This is the default.)
- label=regexp:^[Oo]ther
value=valuePattern: matches options based on their values.
- value=other
id=id: matches options based on their ids.
- id=option1
index=index: matches an option based on its index (offset from zero).
- index=2

If no option locator prefix is provided, the default behaviour is to match on label.

Parameters:: selectLocator - an element locator identifying a drop-down menu; optionLocator - an option locator (a label by default)

addSelection

void addSelection(String locator,
                  String optionLocator)

Add a selection to the set of selected options in a multi-select element using an option locator.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator identifying a multi-select box; optionLocator - an option locator (a label by default)

removeSelection

void removeSelection(String locator,
                     String optionLocator)

Remove a selection from the set of selected options in a multi-select element using an option locator.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator identifying a multi-select box; optionLocator - an option locator (a label by default)

removeAllSelections

void removeAllSelections(String locator)

Unselects all of the selected options in a multi-select element.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator identifying a multi-select box

submit

void submit(String formLocator)

Submit the specified form. This is particularly useful for forms without submit buttons, e.g. single-input "Search" forms.

Parameters:: formLocator - an element locator for the form you want to submit

open

void open(String url,
          String ignoreResponseCode)

Opens an URL in the test frame. This accepts both relative and absolute URLs. The "open" command waits for the page to load before proceeding, ie. the "AndWait" suffix is implicit. Note: The URL must be on the same domain as the runner HTML due to security restrictions in the browser (Same Origin Policy). If you need to open an URL on another domain, use the Selenium Server to start a new browser session on that domain.

Parameters:: url - the URL to open; may be relative or absolute; ignoreResponseCode - if set to true, ignores http response code.

open

void open(String url)

Parameters:: url - the URL to open; may be relative or absolute

openWindow

void openWindow(String url,
                String windowID)

Opens a popup window (if a window with that ID isn't already open). After opening the window, you'll need to select it using the selectWindow command.

This command can also be a useful workaround for bug SEL-339. In some cases, Selenium will be unable to intercept a call to window.open (if the call occurs during or before the "onLoad" event, for example). In those cases, you can force Selenium to notice the open window's name by using the Selenium openWindow command, using an empty (blank) url, like this: openWindow("", "myFunnyWindow").

Parameters:: url - the URL to open, which can be blank; windowID - the JavaScript window ID of the window to select

selectWindow

void selectWindow(String windowID)

Selects a popup window using a window locator; once a popup window has been selected, all commands go to that window. To select the main window again, use null as the target.

Window locators provide different ways of specifying the window object: by title, by internal JavaScript "name," or by JavaScript variable.

title=My Special Window: Finds the window using the text that appears in the title bar. Be careful; two windows can share the same title. If that happens, this locator will just pick one.
name=myWindow: Finds the window using its internal JavaScript "name" property. This is the second parameter "windowName" passed to the JavaScript method window.open(url, windowName, windowFeatures, replaceFlag) (which Selenium intercepts).
var=variableName: Some pop-up windows are unnamed (anonymous), but are associated with a JavaScript variable name in the current application window, e.g. "window.foo = window.open(url);". In those cases, you can open the window using "var=foo".

If no window locator prefix is provided, we'll try to guess what you mean like this:

1.) if windowID is null, (or the string "null") then it is assumed the user is referring to the original window instantiated by the browser).

2.) if the value of the "windowID" parameter is a JavaScript variable name in the current application window, then it is assumed that this variable contains the return value from a call to the JavaScript window.open() method.

3.) Otherwise, selenium looks in a hash it maintains that maps string names to window "names".

4.) If that fails, we'll try looping over all of the known windows to try to find the appropriate "title". Since "title" is not necessarily unique, this may have unexpected behavior.

If you're having trouble figuring out the name of a window that you want to manipulate, look at the Selenium log messages which identify the names of windows created via window.open (and therefore intercepted by Selenium). You will see messages like the following for each window as it is opened:

debug: window.open call intercepted; window ID (which you can use with selectWindow()) is "myNewWindow"

In some cases, Selenium will be unable to intercept a call to window.open (if the call occurs during or before the "onLoad" event, for example). (This is bug SEL-339.) In those cases, you can force Selenium to notice the open window's name by using the Selenium openWindow command, using an empty (blank) url, like this: openWindow("", "myFunnyWindow").

Parameters:: windowID - the JavaScript window ID of the window to select

selectPopUp

void selectPopUp(String windowID)

Simplifies the process of selecting a popup window (and does not offer functionality beyond what selectWindow() already provides).

If windowID is either not specified, or specified as "null", the first non-top window is selected. The top window is the one that would be selected by selectWindow() without providing a windowID . This should not be used when more than one popup window is in play.
Otherwise, the window will be looked up considering windowID as the following in order: 1) the "name" of the window, as specified to window.open(); 2) a javascript variable which is a reference to a window; and 3) the title of the window. This is the same ordered lookup performed by selectWindow .

Parameters:: windowID - an identifier for the popup window, which can take on a number of different meanings

deselectPopUp

void deselectPopUp()

Selects the main window. Functionally equivalent to using selectWindow() and specifying no value for windowID.

selectFrame

void selectFrame(String locator)

Selects a frame within the current window. (You may invoke this command multiple times to select nested frames.) To select the parent frame, use "relative=parent" as a locator; to select the top frame, use "relative=top". You can also select a frame by its 0-based index number; select the first frame with "index=0", or the third frame with "index=2".

You may also use a DOM expression to identify the frame you want directly, like this: dom=frames["main"].frames["subframe"]

Parameters:: locator - an element locator identifying a frame or iframe

getWhetherThisFrameMatchFrameExpression

boolean getWhetherThisFrameMatchFrameExpression(String currentFrameString,
                                                String target)

Determine whether current/locator identify the frame containing this running code.

This is useful in proxy injection mode, where this code runs in every browser frame and window, and sometimes the selenium server needs to identify the "current" frame. In this case, when the test calls selectFrame, this routine is called for each frame to figure out which one has been selected. The selected frame will return true, while all others will return false.

Parameters:: currentFrameString - starting frame; target - new frame (which might be relative to the current one)
Returns:: true if the new frame is this code's window

getWhetherThisWindowMatchWindowExpression

boolean getWhetherThisWindowMatchWindowExpression(String currentWindowString,
                                                  String target)

Determine whether currentWindowString plus target identify the window containing this running code.

This is useful in proxy injection mode, where this code runs in every browser frame and window, and sometimes the selenium server needs to identify the "current" window. In this case, when the test calls selectWindow, this routine is called for each window to figure out which one has been selected. The selected window will return true, while all others will return false.

Parameters:: currentWindowString - starting window; target - new window (which might be relative to the current one, e.g., "_parent")
Returns:: true if the new window is this code's window

waitForPopUp

void waitForPopUp(String windowID,
                  String timeout)

Waits for a popup window to appear and load up.

Parameters:: windowID - the JavaScript window "name" of the window that will appear (not the text of the title bar) If unspecified, or specified as "null", this command will wait for the first non-top window to appear (don't rely on this if you are working with multiple popups simultaneously).; timeout - a timeout in milliseconds, after which the action will return with an error. If this value is not specified, the default Selenium timeout will be used. See the setTimeout() command.

chooseCancelOnNextConfirmation

void chooseCancelOnNextConfirmation()

By default, Selenium's overridden window.confirm() function will return true, as if the user had manually clicked OK; after running this command, the next call to confirm() will return false, as if the user had clicked Cancel. Selenium will then resume using the default behavior for future confirmations, automatically returning true (OK) unless/until you explicitly call this command for each confirmation.

Take note - every time a confirmation comes up, you must consume it with a corresponding getConfirmation, or else the next selenium operation will fail.

chooseOkOnNextConfirmation

void chooseOkOnNextConfirmation()

Undo the effect of calling chooseCancelOnNextConfirmation. Note that Selenium's overridden window.confirm() function will normally automatically return true, as if the user had manually clicked OK, so you shouldn't need to use this command unless for some reason you need to change your mind prior to the next confirmation. After any confirmation, Selenium will resume using the default behavior for future confirmations, automatically returning true (OK) unless/until you explicitly call chooseCancelOnNextConfirmation for each confirmation.

Take note - every time a confirmation comes up, you must consume it with a corresponding getConfirmation, or else the next selenium operation will fail.

answerOnNextPrompt

void answerOnNextPrompt(String answer)

Instructs Selenium to return the specified answer string in response to the next JavaScript prompt [window.prompt()].

Parameters:: answer - the answer to give in response to the prompt pop-up

goBack

void goBack()

Simulates the user clicking the "back" button on their browser.

refresh

void refresh()

Simulates the user clicking the "Refresh" button on their browser.

close

void close()

Simulates the user clicking the "close" button in the titlebar of a popup window or tab.

isAlertPresent

boolean isAlertPresent()

Has an alert occurred?

This function never throws an exception

Returns:: true if there is an alert

isPromptPresent

boolean isPromptPresent()

Has a prompt occurred?

This function never throws an exception

Returns:: true if there is a pending prompt

isConfirmationPresent

boolean isConfirmationPresent()

Has confirm() been called?

This function never throws an exception

Returns:: true if there is a pending confirmation

getAlert

String getAlert()

Retrieves the message of a JavaScript alert generated during the previous action, or fail if there were no alerts.

Getting an alert has the same effect as manually clicking OK. If an alert is generated but you do not consume it with getAlert, the next Selenium action will fail.

Under Selenium, JavaScript alerts will NOT pop up a visible alert dialog.

Selenium does NOT support JavaScript alerts that are generated in a page's onload() event handler. In this case a visible dialog WILL be generated and Selenium will hang until someone manually clicks OK.

Returns:: The message of the most recent JavaScript alert

getConfirmation

String getConfirmation()

Retrieves the message of a JavaScript confirmation dialog generated during the previous action.

By default, the confirm function will return true, having the same effect as manually clicking OK. This can be changed by prior execution of the chooseCancelOnNextConfirmation command.

If an confirmation is generated but you do not consume it with getConfirmation, the next Selenium action will fail.

NOTE: under Selenium, JavaScript confirmations will NOT pop up a visible dialog.

NOTE: Selenium does NOT support JavaScript confirmations that are generated in a page's onload() event handler. In this case a visible dialog WILL be generated and Selenium will hang until you manually click OK.

Returns:: the message of the most recent JavaScript confirmation dialog

getPrompt

String getPrompt()

Retrieves the message of a JavaScript question prompt dialog generated during the previous action.

Successful handling of the prompt requires prior execution of the answerOnNextPrompt command. If a prompt is generated but you do not get/verify it, the next Selenium action will fail.

NOTE: under Selenium, JavaScript prompts will NOT pop up a visible dialog.

NOTE: Selenium does NOT support JavaScript prompts that are generated in a page's onload() event handler. In this case a visible dialog WILL be generated and Selenium will hang until someone manually clicks OK.

Returns:: the message of the most recent JavaScript question prompt

getLocation

String getLocation()

Gets the absolute URL of the current page.

Returns:: the absolute URL of the current page

getTitle

String getTitle()

Gets the title of the current page.

Returns:: the title of the current page

getBodyText

String getBodyText()

Gets the entire text of the page.

Returns:: the entire text of the page

getValue

String getValue(String locator)

Gets the (whitespace-trimmed) value of an input field (or anything else with a value parameter). For checkbox/radio elements, the value will be "on" or "off" depending on whether the element is checked or not.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator
Returns:: the element value, or "on/off" for checkbox/radio elements

getText

String getText(String locator)

Gets the text of an element. This works for any element that contains text. This command uses either the textContent (Mozilla-like browsers) or the innerText (IE-like browsers) of the element, which is the rendered text shown to the user.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator
Returns:: the text of the element

highlight

void highlight(String locator)

Briefly changes the backgroundColor of the specified element yellow. Useful for debugging.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator

getEval

String getEval(String script)

Gets the result of evaluating the specified JavaScript snippet. The snippet may have multiple lines, but only the result of the last line will be returned.

Note that, by default, the snippet will run in the context of the "selenium" object itself, so this will refer to the Selenium object. Use window to refer to the window of your application, e.g. window.document.getElementById('foo')

If you need to use a locator to refer to a single element in your application page, you can use this.browserbot.findElement("id=foo") where "id=foo" is your locator.

Parameters:: script - the JavaScript snippet to run
Returns:: the results of evaluating the snippet

isChecked

boolean isChecked(String locator)

Gets whether a toggle-button (checkbox/radio) is checked. Fails if the specified element doesn't exist or isn't a toggle-button.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator pointing to a checkbox or radio button
Returns:: true if the checkbox is checked, false otherwise

getTable

String getTable(String tableCellAddress)

Gets the text from a cell of a table. The cellAddress syntax tableLocator.row.column, where row and column start at 0.

Parameters:: tableCellAddress - a cell address, e.g. "foo.1.4"
Returns:: the text from the specified cell

getSelectedLabels

String[] getSelectedLabels(String selectLocator)

Gets all option labels (visible text) for selected options in the specified select or multi-select element.

Parameters:: selectLocator - an element locator identifying a drop-down menu
Returns:: an array of all selected option labels in the specified select drop-down

getSelectedLabel

String getSelectedLabel(String selectLocator)

Gets option label (visible text) for selected option in the specified select element.

Parameters:: selectLocator - an element locator identifying a drop-down menu
Returns:: the selected option label in the specified select drop-down

getSelectedValues

String[] getSelectedValues(String selectLocator)

Gets all option values (value attributes) for selected options in the specified select or multi-select element.

Parameters:: selectLocator - an element locator identifying a drop-down menu
Returns:: an array of all selected option values in the specified select drop-down

getSelectedValue

String getSelectedValue(String selectLocator)

Gets option value (value attribute) for selected option in the specified select element.

Parameters:: selectLocator - an element locator identifying a drop-down menu
Returns:: the selected option value in the specified select drop-down

getSelectedIndexes

String[] getSelectedIndexes(String selectLocator)

Gets all option indexes (option number, starting at 0) for selected options in the specified select or multi-select element.

Parameters:: selectLocator - an element locator identifying a drop-down menu
Returns:: an array of all selected option indexes in the specified select drop-down

getSelectedIndex

String getSelectedIndex(String selectLocator)

Gets option index (option number, starting at 0) for selected option in the specified select element.

Parameters:: selectLocator - an element locator identifying a drop-down menu
Returns:: the selected option index in the specified select drop-down

getSelectedIds

String[] getSelectedIds(String selectLocator)

Gets all option element IDs for selected options in the specified select or multi-select element.

Parameters:: selectLocator - an element locator identifying a drop-down menu
Returns:: an array of all selected option IDs in the specified select drop-down

getSelectedId

String getSelectedId(String selectLocator)

Gets option element ID for selected option in the specified select element.

Parameters:: selectLocator - an element locator identifying a drop-down menu
Returns:: the selected option ID in the specified select drop-down

isSomethingSelected

boolean isSomethingSelected(String selectLocator)

Determines whether some option in a drop-down menu is selected.

Parameters:: selectLocator - an element locator identifying a drop-down menu
Returns:: true if some option has been selected, false otherwise

getSelectOptions

String[] getSelectOptions(String selectLocator)

Gets all option labels in the specified select drop-down.

Parameters:: selectLocator - an element locator identifying a drop-down menu
Returns:: an array of all option labels in the specified select drop-down

getAttribute

String getAttribute(String attributeLocator)

Gets the value of an element attribute. The value of the attribute may differ across browsers (this is the case for the "style" attribute, for example).

Parameters:: attributeLocator - an element locator followed by an @ sign and then the name of the attribute, e.g. "foo@bar"
Returns:: the value of the specified attribute

isTextPresent

boolean isTextPresent(String pattern)

Verifies that the specified text pattern appears somewhere on the rendered page shown to the user.

Parameters:: pattern - a pattern to match with the text of the page
Returns:: true if the pattern matches the text, false otherwise

isElementPresent

boolean isElementPresent(String locator)

Verifies that the specified element is somewhere on the page.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator
Returns:: true if the element is present, false otherwise

isVisible

boolean isVisible(String locator)

Determines if the specified element is visible. An element can be rendered invisible by setting the CSS "visibility" property to "hidden", or the "display" property to "none", either for the element itself or one if its ancestors. This method will fail if the element is not present.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator
Returns:: true if the specified element is visible, false otherwise

isEditable

boolean isEditable(String locator)

Determines whether the specified input element is editable, ie hasn't been disabled. This method will fail if the specified element isn't an input element.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator
Returns:: true if the input element is editable, false otherwise

getAllButtons

String[] getAllButtons()

Returns the IDs of all buttons on the page.

If a given button has no ID, it will appear as "" in this array.

Returns:: the IDs of all buttons on the page

getAllLinks

String[] getAllLinks()

Returns the IDs of all links on the page.

If a given link has no ID, it will appear as "" in this array.

Returns:: the IDs of all links on the page

getAllFields

String[] getAllFields()

Returns the IDs of all input fields on the page.

If a given field has no ID, it will appear as "" in this array.

Returns:: the IDs of all field on the page

getAttributeFromAllWindows

String[] getAttributeFromAllWindows(String attributeName)

Returns every instance of some attribute from all known windows.

Parameters:: attributeName - name of an attribute on the windows
Returns:: the set of values of this attribute from all known windows.

dragdrop

void dragdrop(String locator,
              String movementsString)

deprecated - use dragAndDrop instead

Parameters:: locator - an element locator; movementsString - offset in pixels from the current location to which the element should be moved, e.g., "+70,-300"

setMouseSpeed

void setMouseSpeed(String pixels)

Configure the number of pixels between "mousemove" events during dragAndDrop commands (default=10).

Setting this value to 0 means that we'll send a "mousemove" event to every single pixel in between the start location and the end location; that can be very slow, and may cause some browsers to force the JavaScript to timeout.

If the mouse speed is greater than the distance between the two dragged objects, we'll just send one "mousemove" at the start location and then one final one at the end location.

Parameters:: pixels - the number of pixels between "mousemove" events

getMouseSpeed

Number getMouseSpeed()

Returns the number of pixels between "mousemove" events during dragAndDrop commands (default=10).

Returns:: the number of pixels between "mousemove" events during dragAndDrop commands (default=10)

dragAndDrop

void dragAndDrop(String locator,
                 String movementsString)

Drags an element a certain distance and then drops it

Parameters:: locator - an element locator; movementsString - offset in pixels from the current location to which the element should be moved, e.g., "+70,-300"

dragAndDropToObject

void dragAndDropToObject(String locatorOfObjectToBeDragged,
                         String locatorOfDragDestinationObject)

Drags an element and drops it on another element

Parameters:: locatorOfObjectToBeDragged - an element to be dragged; locatorOfDragDestinationObject - an element whose location (i.e., whose center-most pixel) will be the point where locatorOfObjectToBeDragged is dropped

windowFocus

void windowFocus()

Gives focus to the currently selected window

windowMaximize

void windowMaximize()

Resize currently selected window to take up the entire screen

getAllWindowIds

String[] getAllWindowIds()

Returns the IDs of all windows that the browser knows about.

Returns:: the IDs of all windows that the browser knows about.

getAllWindowNames

String[] getAllWindowNames()

Returns the names of all windows that the browser knows about.

Returns:: the names of all windows that the browser knows about.

getAllWindowTitles

String[] getAllWindowTitles()

Returns the titles of all windows that the browser knows about.

Returns:: the titles of all windows that the browser knows about.

getHtmlSource

String getHtmlSource()

Returns the entire HTML source between the opening and closing "html" tags.

Returns:: the entire HTML source

setCursorPosition

void setCursorPosition(String locator,
                       String position)

Moves the text cursor to the specified position in the given input element or textarea. This method will fail if the specified element isn't an input element or textarea.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator pointing to an input element or textarea; position - the numerical position of the cursor in the field; position should be 0 to move the position to the beginning of the field. You can also set the cursor to -1 to move it to the end of the field.

getElementIndex

Number getElementIndex(String locator)

Get the relative index of an element to its parent (starting from 0). The comment node and empty text node will be ignored.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator pointing to an element
Returns:: of relative index of the element to its parent (starting from 0)

isOrdered

boolean isOrdered(String locator1,
                  String locator2)

Check if these two elements have same parent and are ordered siblings in the DOM. Two same elements will not be considered ordered.

Parameters:: locator1 - an element locator pointing to the first element; locator2 - an element locator pointing to the second element
Returns:: true if element1 is the previous sibling of element2, false otherwise

getElementPositionLeft

Number getElementPositionLeft(String locator)

Retrieves the horizontal position of an element

Parameters:: locator - an element locator pointing to an element OR an element itself
Returns:: of pixels from the edge of the frame.

getElementPositionTop

Number getElementPositionTop(String locator)

Retrieves the vertical position of an element

Parameters:: locator - an element locator pointing to an element OR an element itself
Returns:: of pixels from the edge of the frame.

getElementWidth

Number getElementWidth(String locator)

Retrieves the width of an element

Parameters:: locator - an element locator pointing to an element
Returns:: width of an element in pixels

getElementHeight

Number getElementHeight(String locator)

Retrieves the height of an element

Parameters:: locator - an element locator pointing to an element
Returns:: height of an element in pixels

getCursorPosition

Number getCursorPosition(String locator)

Retrieves the text cursor position in the given input element or textarea; beware, this may not work perfectly on all browsers.

Specifically, if the cursor/selection has been cleared by JavaScript, this command will tend to return the position of the last location of the cursor, even though the cursor is now gone from the page. This is filed as SEL-243.

This method will fail if the specified element isn't an input element or textarea, or there is no cursor in the element.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator pointing to an input element or textarea
Returns:: the numerical position of the cursor in the field

getExpression

String getExpression(String expression)

Returns the specified expression.

This is useful because of JavaScript preprocessing. It is used to generate commands like assertExpression and waitForExpression.

Parameters:: expression - the value to return
Returns:: the value passed in

getXpathCount

Number getXpathCount(String xpath)

Returns the number of nodes that match the specified xpath, eg. "//table" would give the number of tables.

Parameters:: xpath - the xpath expression to evaluate. do NOT wrap this expression in a 'count()' function; we will do that for you.
Returns:: the number of nodes that match the specified xpath

getCssCount

Number getCssCount(String css)

Returns the number of nodes that match the specified css selector, eg. "css=table" would give the number of tables.

Parameters:: css - the css selector to evaluate. do NOT wrap this expression in a 'count()' function; we will do that for you.
Returns:: the number of nodes that match the specified selector

assignId

void assignId(String locator,
              String identifier)

Temporarily sets the "id" attribute of the specified element, so you can locate it in the future using its ID rather than a slow/complicated XPath. This ID will disappear once the page is reloaded.

Parameters:: locator - an element locator pointing to an element; identifier - a string to be used as the ID of the specified element

allowNativeXpath

void allowNativeXpath(String allow)

Specifies whether Selenium should use the native in-browser implementation of XPath (if any native version is available); if you pass "false" to this function, we will always use our pure-JavaScript xpath library. Using the pure-JS xpath library can improve the consistency of xpath element locators between different browser vendors, but the pure-JS version is much slower than the native implementations.

Parameters:: allow - boolean, true means we'll prefer to use native XPath; false means we'll only use JS XPath

ignoreAttributesWithoutValue

void ignoreAttributesWithoutValue(String ignore)

Specifies whether Selenium will ignore xpath attributes that have no value, i.e. are the empty string, when using the non-native xpath evaluation engine. You'd want to do this for performance reasons in IE. However, this could break certain xpaths, for example an xpath that looks for an attribute whose value is NOT the empty string. The hope is that such xpaths are relatively rare, but the user should have the option of using them. Note that this only influences xpath evaluation when using the ajaxslt engine (i.e. not "javascript-xpath").

Parameters:: ignore - boolean, true means we'll ignore attributes without value at the expense of xpath "correctness"; false means we'll sacrifice speed for correctness.

waitForCondition

void waitForCondition(String script,
                      String timeout)

Runs the specified JavaScript snippet repeatedly until it evaluates to "true". The snippet may have multiple lines, but only the result of the last line will be considered.

Note that, by default, the snippet will be run in the runner's test window, not in the window of your application. To get the window of your application, you can use the JavaScript snippet selenium.browserbot.getCurrentWindow(), and then run your JavaScript in there

Parameters:: script - the JavaScript snippet to run; timeout - a timeout in milliseconds, after which this command will return with an error

setTimeout

void setTimeout(String timeout)

Specifies the amount of time that Selenium will wait for actions to complete.

Actions that require waiting include "open" and the "waitFor*" actions.

The default timeout is 30 seconds.

Parameters:: timeout - a timeout in milliseconds, after which the action will return with an error

waitForPageToLoad

void waitForPageToLoad(String timeout)

Waits for a new page to load.

You can use this command instead of the "AndWait" suffixes, "clickAndWait", "selectAndWait", "typeAndWait" etc. (which are only available in the JS API).

Selenium constantly keeps track of new pages loading, and sets a "newPageLoaded" flag when it first notices a page load. Running any other Selenium command after turns the flag to false. Hence, if you want to wait for a page to load, you must wait immediately after a Selenium command that caused a page-load.

Parameters:: timeout - a timeout in milliseconds, after which this command will return with an error

waitForFrameToLoad

void waitForFrameToLoad(String frameAddress,
                        String timeout)

Waits for a new frame to load.

Selenium constantly keeps track of new pages and frames loading, and sets a "newPageLoaded" flag when it first notices a page load.

See waitForPageToLoad for more information.

Parameters:: frameAddress - FrameAddress from the server side; timeout - a timeout in milliseconds, after which this command will return with an error

getCookie

String getCookie()

Return all cookies of the current page under test.

Returns:: all cookies of the current page under test

getCookieByName

String getCookieByName(String name)

Returns the value of the cookie with the specified name, or throws an error if the cookie is not present.

Parameters:: name - the name of the cookie
Returns:: the value of the cookie

isCookiePresent

boolean isCookiePresent(String name)

Returns true if a cookie with the specified name is present, or false otherwise.

Parameters:: name - the name of the cookie
Returns:: true if a cookie with the specified name is present, or false otherwise.

createCookie

void createCookie(String nameValuePair,
                  String optionsString)

Create a new cookie whose path and domain are same with those of current page under test, unless you specified a path for this cookie explicitly.

Parameters:: nameValuePair - name and value of the cookie in a format "name=value"; optionsString - options for the cookie. Currently supported options include 'path', 'max_age' and 'domain'. the optionsString's format is "path=/path/, max_age=60, domain=.foo.com". The order of options are irrelevant, the unit of the value of 'max_age' is second. Note that specifying a domain that isn't a subset of the current domain will usually fail.

deleteCookie

void deleteCookie(String name,
                  String optionsString)

Delete a named cookie with specified path and domain. Be careful; to delete a cookie, you need to delete it using the exact same path and domain that were used to create the cookie. If the path is wrong, or the domain is wrong, the cookie simply won't be deleted. Also note that specifying a domain that isn't a subset of the current domain will usually fail. Since there's no way to discover at runtime the original path and domain of a given cookie, we've added an option called 'recurse' to try all sub-domains of the current domain with all paths that are a subset of the current path. Beware; this option can be slow. In big-O notation, it operates in O(n*m) time, where n is the number of dots in the domain name and m is the number of slashes in the path.

Parameters:: name - the name of the cookie to be deleted; optionsString - options for the cookie. Currently supported options include 'path', 'domain' and 'recurse.' The optionsString's format is "path=/path/, domain=.foo.com, recurse=true". The order of options are irrelevant. Note that specifying a domain that isn't a subset of the current domain will usually fail.

deleteAllVisibleCookies

void deleteAllVisibleCookies()

Calls deleteCookie with recurse=true on all cookies visible to the current page. As noted on the documentation for deleteCookie, recurse=true can be much slower than simply deleting the cookies using a known domain/path.

setBrowserLogLevel

void setBrowserLogLevel(String logLevel)

Sets the threshold for browser-side logging messages; log messages beneath this threshold will be discarded. Valid logLevel strings are: "debug", "info", "warn", "error" or "off". To see the browser logs, you need to either show the log window in GUI mode, or enable browser-side logging in Selenium RC.

Parameters:: logLevel - one of the following: "debug", "info", "warn", "error" or "off"

runScript

void runScript(String script)

Creates a new "script" tag in the body of the current test window, and adds the specified text into the body of the command. Scripts run in this way can often be debugged more easily than scripts executed using Selenium's "getEval" command. Beware that JS exceptions thrown in these script tags aren't managed by Selenium, so you should probably wrap your script in try/catch blocks if there is any chance that the script will throw an exception.

Parameters:: script - the JavaScript snippet to run

addLocationStrategy

void addLocationStrategy(String strategyName,
                         String functionDefinition)

Defines a new function for Selenium to locate elements on the page. For example, if you define the strategy "foo", and someone runs click("foo=blah"), we'll run your function, passing you the string "blah", and click on the element that your function returns, or throw an "Element not found" error if your function returns null. We'll pass three arguments to your function:

locator: the string the user passed in
inWindow: the currently selected window
inDocument: the currently selected document

The function must return null if the element can't be found.

Parameters:: strategyName - the name of the strategy to define; this should use only letters [a-zA-Z] with no spaces or other punctuation.; functionDefinition - a string defining the body of a function in JavaScript. For example: return inDocument.getElementById(locator);

captureEntirePageScreenshot

void captureEntirePageScreenshot(String filename,
                                 String kwargs)

Saves the entire contents of the current window canvas to a PNG file. Contrast this with the captureScreenshot command, which captures the contents of the OS viewport (i.e. whatever is currently being displayed on the monitor), and is implemented in the RC only. Currently this only works in Firefox when running in chrome mode, and in IE non-HTA using the EXPERIMENTAL "Snapsie" utility. The Firefox implementation is mostly borrowed from the Screengrab! Firefox extension. Please see http://www.screengrab.org and http://snapsie.sourceforge.net/ for details.

Parameters:

filename - the path to the file to persist the screenshot as. No filename extension will be appended by default. Directories will not be created if they do not exist, and an exception will be thrown, possibly by native code.

kwargs - a kwargs string that modifies the way the screenshot is captured. Example: "background=#CCFFDD" . Currently valid options:

background: the background CSS for the HTML document. This may be useful to set for capturing screenshots of less-than-ideal layouts, for example where absolute positioning causes the calculation of the canvas dimension to fail and a black background is exposed (possibly obscuring black text).

rollup

void rollup(String rollupName,
            String kwargs)

Executes a command rollup, which is a series of commands with a unique name, and optionally arguments that control the generation of the set of commands. If any one of the rolled-up commands fails, the rollup is considered to have failed. Rollups may also contain nested rollups.

Parameters:: rollupName - the name of the rollup command; kwargs - keyword arguments string that influences how the rollup expands into commands

addScript

void addScript(String scriptContent,
               String scriptTagId)

Loads script content into a new script tag in the Selenium document. This differs from the runScript command in that runScript adds the script tag to the document of the AUT, not the Selenium document. The following entities in the script content are replaced by the characters they represent: < > & The corresponding remove command is removeScript.

Parameters:: scriptContent - the Javascript content of the script to add; scriptTagId - (optional) the id of the new script tag. If specified, and an element with this id already exists, this operation will fail.

removeScript

void removeScript(String scriptTagId)

Removes a script tag from the Selenium document identified by the given id. Does nothing if the referenced tag doesn't exist.

Parameters:: scriptTagId - the id of the script element to remove.

useXpathLibrary

void useXpathLibrary(String libraryName)

Allows choice of one of the available libraries.

Parameters:

libraryName - name of the desired library Only the following three can be chosen:

"ajaxslt" - Google's library
"javascript-xpath" - Cybozu Labs' faster library
"default" - The default library. Currently the default library is "ajaxslt" .

If libraryName isn't one of these three, then no change will be made.

setContext

void setContext(String context)

Writes a message to the status bar and adds a note to the browser-side log.

Parameters:: context - the message to be sent to the browser

attachFile

void attachFile(String fieldLocator,
                String fileLocator)

Sets a file input (upload) field to the file listed in fileLocator

Parameters:: fieldLocator - an element locator; fileLocator - a URL pointing to the specified file. Before the file can be set in the input field (fieldLocator), Selenium RC may need to transfer the file to the local machine before attaching the file in a web page form. This is common in selenium grid configurations where the RC server driving the browser is not the same machine that started the test. Supported Browsers: Firefox ("*chrome") only.

captureScreenshot

void captureScreenshot(String filename)

Captures a PNG screenshot to the specified file.

Parameters:: filename - the absolute path to the file to be written, e.g. "c:\blah\screenshot.png"

captureScreenshotToString

String captureScreenshotToString()

Capture a PNG screenshot. It then returns the file as a base 64 encoded string.

Returns:: The base 64 encoded string of the screen shot (PNG file)

captureNetworkTraffic

String captureNetworkTraffic(String type)

Returns the network traffic seen by the browser, including headers, AJAX requests, status codes, and timings. When this function is called, the traffic log is cleared, so the returned content is only the traffic seen since the last call.

Parameters:: type - The type of data to return the network traffic as. Valid values are: json, xml, or plain.
Returns:: A string representation in the defined type of the network traffic seen by the browser.

addCustomRequestHeader

void addCustomRequestHeader(String key,
                            String value)

Tells the Selenium server to add the specificed key and value as a custom outgoing request header. This only works if the browser is configured to use the built in Selenium proxy.

Parameters:: key - the header name.; value - the header value.

captureEntirePageScreenshotToString

String captureEntirePageScreenshotToString(String kwargs)

Downloads a screenshot of the browser current window canvas to a based 64 encoded PNG file. The entire windows canvas is captured, including parts rendered outside of the current view port. Currently this only works in Mozilla and when running in chrome mode.

Parameters:: kwargs - A kwargs string that modifies the way the screenshot is captured. Example: "background=#CCFFDD". This may be useful to set for capturing screenshots of less-than-ideal layouts, for example where absolute positioning causes the calculation of the canvas dimension to fail and a black background is exposed (possibly obscuring black text).
Returns:: The base 64 encoded string of the page screenshot (PNG file)

shutDownSeleniumServer

void shutDownSeleniumServer()

Kills the running Selenium Server and all browser sessions. After you run this command, you will no longer be able to send commands to the server; you can't remotely start the server once it has been stopped. Normally you should prefer to run the "stop" command, which terminates the current browser session, rather than shutting down the entire server.

retrieveLastRemoteControlLogs

String retrieveLastRemoteControlLogs()

Retrieve the last messages logged on a specific remote control. Useful for error reports, especially when running multiple remote controls in a distributed environment. The maximum number of log messages that can be retrieve is configured on remote control startup.

Returns:: The last N log messages as a multi-line string.

keyDownNative

void keyDownNative(String keycode)

Simulates a user pressing a key (without releasing it yet) by sending a native operating system keystroke. This function uses the java.awt.Robot class to send a keystroke; this more accurately simulates typing a key on the keyboard. It does not honor settings from the shiftKeyDown, controlKeyDown, altKeyDown and metaKeyDown commands, and does not target any particular HTML element. To send a keystroke to a particular element, focus on the element first before running this command.

Parameters:: keycode - an integer keycode number corresponding to a java.awt.event.KeyEvent; note that Java keycodes are NOT the same thing as JavaScript keycodes!

keyUpNative

void keyUpNative(String keycode)

Simulates a user releasing a key by sending a native operating system keystroke. This function uses the java.awt.Robot class to send a keystroke; this more accurately simulates typing a key on the keyboard. It does not honor settings from the shiftKeyDown, controlKeyDown, altKeyDown and metaKeyDown commands, and does not target any particular HTML element. To send a keystroke to a particular element, focus on the element first before running this command.

Parameters:: keycode - an integer keycode number corresponding to a java.awt.event.KeyEvent; note that Java keycodes are NOT the same thing as JavaScript keycodes!

keyPressNative

void keyPressNative(String keycode)

Simulates a user pressing and releasing a key by sending a native operating system keystroke. This function uses the java.awt.Robot class to send a keystroke; this more accurately simulates typing a key on the keyboard. It does not honor settings from the shiftKeyDown, controlKeyDown, altKeyDown and metaKeyDown commands, and does not target any particular HTML element. To send a keystroke to a particular element, focus on the element first before running this command.

Parameters:: keycode - an integer keycode number corresponding to a java.awt.event.KeyEvent; note that Java keycodes are NOT the same thing as JavaScript keycodes!

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