I am using Behat for testing, with the ZombieJS driver, and everything is working very well so far, but there is one thing that bothers me, I can't seem to figure out how to get Behat to simulate a click on a non-link element. I guess this comes from Mink being a "cross-browser" driver, and it doesn't really make sense to click on non-link elements. For my use case though, I need it, because there are several elements on the page that have javascript event listeners attached to them, and I want to test these functionalities.
I tried using
Then I follow "div.sa"
But it fails with the expected error:
01. Link with id|title|alt|text "div.sa" not found.
Since it's not a link element. There is a similar step in Behat:
I press "button.class"
But this one is only for buttons.
Is there a way I could get Behat click on elements that are not tags?
Yes I believe so, but you'll need to write a custom step, something along these lines (if you're using a subclass of MinkContext
.
/**
* @When /^I click the something$/
*/
public function iClickTheSomething()
{
$something = $this->getSession()
->getPage()
->find("css", "div.sa")
->click();
}
With some error handling:
/** Click on the element with the provided xpath query
*
* @When /^(?:|I )click on the element "([^"]*)"$/
*/
public function iClickOnTheElement($locator)
{
$session = $this->getSession(); // get the mink session
$element = $session->getPage()->find('css', $locator); // runs the actual query and returns the element
// errors must not pass silently
if (null === $element) {
throw new \InvalidArgumentException(sprintf('Could not evaluate CSS selector: "%s"', $locator));
}
// ok, let's click on it
$element->click();
}
This is my adaptation of the answer by Comstar. The same functionality is achieved, however, it seems simpler to me to do it this way.
/**
* @Then /^I click on "([^"]*)"$/
*/
public function iClickOn($arg1)
{
$page = $this->getSession()->getPage();
$findName = $page->find("css", $arg1);
if (!$findName){
throw new Exception($arg1." could not be found");
}
else {
$findName->click();
}
}
When I execute a click event, so that the current URL be equal to javascript:
$this->iClickOnTheElementWithXPath(‘//div[@class="'.$arg2.'"]/div/div[@class="edit"]/a[text()="'.$arg1.'"]‘);
In the page html:
<a onclick="editForm('Avatar')" href="javascript:;">Modifier</a>