Java Selenium Triggering Disabled Submit Button on Empty Textfield

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I have a dynamic form that changes based on the results of what is selected in certain dropdowns. The submit button is also set to be disabled until there is at least one textbox with data set in it.

When I'm testing this manually, everything seems to be working ok. The disabled submit button becomes enabled when the textfields are populated.

However, when I'm testing this with Java Selenium, the submit button seems to never trigger unless I manually click the screen a few times while selenium is filling in the text fields.

What is causing this, and what can I do to make this fully automated? I tried telling selenium to click on another textfield after it is done filling in the data, but that didn't seem to work.

bagelmakers · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-13 14:48:09Z

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If it is required that you click in order to get the buttons to become active, it is likely that your fields require a change of focus to execute any commands in the HTML.

An easy way to simulate this in Selenium is to send

driver.switchTo().activeElement().sendKeys(Keys.TAB)

after you have finished interacting with that element. This will cause it to focus on the next element and likely will execute the Javascript to activate the submit button.

answered Mar 13, 2015 at 14:48

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