Question

while writing some acceptance tests for my webapp (playframework based),I got confused by the usage of some selenium commands.

In my html page,I have a submit button like this

<input type="submit" id="removecartitem" value="remove"/>

to locate this,I used

assertElementPresent(id='removecartitem')

however,this fails,

assertElementPresent    id='removecartitem' false

The selenium documentation says

id=id: Select the element with the specified @id attribute.

but,if i simply put

assertElementPresent('removecartitem')

Then,the test is executed correctly.This is the source for confusion, since the default way is to select the element whose name attribute is ‘removecartitem’ ,and I haven’t mentioned any name attribute in my html

Any idea why this happens?

Answer 1

It looks like you need to remove the single quotes according to the documentation you provided…e.g:

assertElementPresent(id=removecartitem)