- On giving invalid data in the email field it prompts for an HTML 5 alert message.
- Firebug doesn't allow to inspect this error message (Please enter an email address) in two cases:
a. While inspecting with Firebug it is getting disappeared.
b. Right click on top of the error message doesn't work to inspect the element in DOM structure.
The Selenium API doesn't support directly a required field. However, you can easily get the state and the message with a piece of JavaScript (Java):
JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
WebElement field = driver.findElement(By.name("email"));
Boolean is_valid = (Boolean)js.executeScript("return arguments[0].checkValidity();", field);
String message = (String)js.executeScript("return arguments[0].validationMessage;", field);
Note that it's also possible to use getAttribute
to get the validationMessage
even though it's a property:
String message = driver.findElement(By.name("email")).getAttribute("validationMessage");
In Python:
self.browser.get(self.live_server_url + registration_path)
email_input = self.browser.find_element_by_id('id_email_input')
validation_message = email_input.get_attribute("validationMessage");
http://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/api.html#module-selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement
You get all html5 required field validation in this way.
String errorMessage = driver.findElement(By.id("email")).getAttribute("validationMessage");