Webdriver/Selenium Difference between methods .isDisplayed() and .isEnabled()?

Hi All,

I have seen so many posts where people asked the differences between .isDisplayed() and .isEnabled() in Selenium/Webdriver automation and found mostly people are still confused.

The methods .isDisplayed() and .isEnabled() have nothing in common.

 Here I am trying to explain the read differences between .isDisplayed() and .isEnabled(). As name itself clearly says .isDisplayed() means is my object are visible or not on my webpage means Am I able to see my element through my eyes.

Method .isDisplayed() :

An element is considered displayed when it is perceptually visible to the human eye.

The element displayed algorithm is a boolean state where true signifies that the element is displayed and false signifies that the element is not displayed.

To compute the state on element:

• ·         If the attribute hidden is set, return false.
• ·         If the computed value of the display style property is "none", return false.

Like

<input type="hidden" name="abc" value="10" id="hiddenFiled1" />

Observe the output, since element with id hiddenField1 is hidden from web page, so isDisplayed method return false, whereas isEnabled() method return true.

OR

Refer below link

http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_display_block

Try to run with display: block;  and display: none;

Method .isEnabled() :

An element is considered enabled if it's not a form control (button, input, textarea, select or option) or when the user interactions and focus are not blocked with the disabled attribute/property.

Is Element Enabled determines if the referenced element is enabled or not. This operation only makes sense on form controls.

Like

Last name: <input type="text" name="lname" disabled><br>

Last name: <input type="text" name="lname" enabled><br>

 

Refer below link

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_input_disabled

Last name: <input type="text" name="lname" disabled><br>

https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/#is-element-enabled

XPath unable to find text with or using webdriver /

Hi,

Some times we face issues to create XPath of  WebElement which have space in starting of it and then we check the element html source where we found &nbsp; or &nbsp is added before the element text while it display as space on UI. Normally we create the XPath to identify this element by adding space in the starting of it but his will not identify the element. There are another workaround to identify this element by contains text method. But if we have to identify the element with exact text having starting space or ending space  then we can use following way to do this.

lets see this example

<div class="myclass">
<label>AgendaShowCapacity&nbsp;</label>
</div>

OR

<div class="myclass">
<label>&nbspAgendaShowCapacity</label>

</div>

Following XPath will not work for this

//label[text()='AgendaShowCapacity '] doesn't work

Here we have to use following text to identify the element

&nbsp; = \u00a0

&nbsp = \u0160

So XPath will be like this

//label[text()='AgendaShowCapacity\u00a0']


//label[text()='\u0160AgendaShowCapacity']

Close All Browsers Except OLD One QTP VB

Hi All,
Some times we required that Only OLD open Browser Window( Only for IE) will remain Open and rest of all should be closed during QTP scripting. Here is the Function which will close all the open Browsers except OLD Open browser (Work only for Internet Explorer using QTP)


Public function fn_CloseAllBrowsersExceptOLD
      rem create Browser description object

         Set brwsr=Description.Create

         brwsr(“micclass”).value=”Browser”

         Set obj=Desktop.ChildObjects(brwsr)

          browserCount= obj.count

         Set obj=nothing

         If  browserCount >1  Then

         do

            Browser(“CreationTime:=1″).Close

            Set obj=Desktop.ChildObjects(brwsr)

            browserCount= obj.count

            Set obj=nothing

         loop  until  browserCount =1

        End If
End Function

call  fn_CloseAllBrowsersExceptOLD( )