I have a button on a page that looks like:
<button ng-click="myFunction()" ng-show="flag">
Submit
</button>
The element has no ID.
Is there a way to find this element using the function bound to Ng-Click? Or do I have to assign an ID to this element to locate it using Jasmine / Protractor?
Just tested this and it works:
element(by.css('[ng-click="myFunction()"]'))
I went through the Protractor API and didn't find anything related to finding an element through ng-click
. I did find
element(by.buttonText("Submit"));
Not quite the same, but does the job in my environment.
If you want to use ng-show
, you could try this:
element(by.Css("button[ng-show]")); // Get element with tag < button > and has ng-show attribute
or:
element(by.Css("button[ng-show*=flag]")); // Get element with tag < button > and has ng-show attribute which contains word flag
Rather than adding an ID, which I don't like to do just to provide a test hook, I would add type="submit"
to the button and then you can search By.css('[type="submit"]')