I've been writing a couple of tests using selenium for my website. However, I've not found a way to test an input textfield that is filled by auto completion. As an example, I want to select one of the locations that is displayed in an auto-complete list dropdown.
This is what I have so far:
driver.find_element_by_id("id_location_0").send_keys("Free City")
driver.find_element_by_id("ui-active-menuitem").click()
How is Auto-complete/Auto-suggest testing achieved in selenium using Python?
NOTE: Google search is a good example of what I'm trying to do.
It really depends on the application but the general way to go is either:
Look at what type of elements are shown in the auto complete list, in the case of google it is spans in a table, so you would do something like
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("css selector that matches all the auto complete suggestions)
then iterate through them until you find the one/ones you expect.
THe other option for google is to use the keydown events to select an option and the key enter to confirm that as your choice
The following code worked for me:
driver.find_element_by_id("id_location_0").send_keys("Free City")
element_to_hover_over = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("ul.ui-autocomplete > :first-child ")
hover = ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(element_to_hover_over)
hover.perform()
driver.find_element_by_id("ui-active-menuitem").click()
I'm sure this can be optimized in some way.
