Testing rich:editor with Selenium

[bmaia]

Can someone please help me test a rich:editor with selenium?

I've been struggling with this for a while now and I cannot simulate the typing in the editor (and consequently changing its content).

I've tried using SeleniumRC and WebDriver (in Selenium 2)..

Please, any help will be much appreciated.

[ppitonak]

Hi Barbara,

we didn't test rich:editor with Selenium 2 but we have several tests using Selenium 1.x. Editor component is a bit tricky because it uses an iframe which causes problems with Selenium. You need to switch frames according to which element of the page are you using.

You can have a look on our tests for richfaces-demo:

test http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/richfaces/branches/community/3.3.X/samples/richfaces-demo/functional-test/src/test/java/org/jboss/richfaces/integrationTest/editor/SimpleEditorTestCase.java

locators http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/richfaces/branches/community/3.3.X/samples/richfaces-demo/functional-test/src/test/resources/org/jboss/richfaces/integrationTest/editor/locators.properties

Basically what you need to do to access editor's content, you have to call

selenium.selectFrame( ... inner iframe locator ...);

and after you checked the content, you switch back to main window using

selenium.selectFrame("relative=top");

I'm not sure whether this approach works with Selenium 2 too but give it a try

Regards,

Palo

[bmaia]

Thanks for the fast response!

I already tried a variation of what you suggested, my problem is that "inner iframe locator" i looked in the rendered HTML page and there is no iframe, should I be looking for the locator somewhere else? I tried using the xpath expression for the rendered textarea but selenium complains that it is not a frame (Which makes all the sense in the world )

EDIT: Never mind, Used chrome's "Inspect Element" and found the iframe, your solution worked like a charm!! Thank You Very Much!