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How do I click/check a specific radio button if it is a column in an html table using Selenium RC?

Answer 1

+2 A:

Iterate through each row, and get the value of the second column. If this value is what you're looking for, then select the radio button. So, in pseudo-code:

def select_radio_button(second_value):
  for row = 0 to rows_in_table:
    if (second_value == table_value(row)):
      select_radio_button(row, 1)

This requires table_value and select_radio_button to be written, which can be achieved by writing a couple of simple XPath queries. Doing so without knowing what else is on the page is difficult, since none of the elements have IDs. So, you'd write something along the lines of:

def table_value(row, column):
  return get_text("//table[@class='myClass']//tr[%s]/td[%s]" % (row, column))

def select_radio_button(row, column):
  check("//table[@class='myClass']//tr[%s]/td[%s]/input[@type='radio']" % (row, column))

It is possible to do this entirely with one XPath, although the readability is questionable:

check("//table[@class='myClass']//td[text()='Dog']/../td[1]/input[1]")

If you're doing this sort of thing a lot, it might be worth spending some time building abstractions for this, so that your tests don't just read as lines of XPaths.

Michael Williamson 2010-02-25 18:28:50

This worked perfect...thanks!

HtmlTableGuru 2010-02-27 16:18:16

Answer 2

A:

<html>
<head>
<script src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.3.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
   function check_from_val(val) {
      /*Find td containing matching text*/
      var matching_val = $('td').filter( function() { return $(this).text() == val } );
      /*Find the closest tr parent */
      var parent_row = matching_val.parents("tr")[0]; 
      /*Find the input descendent of tr and check it */
      $(parent_row).find("td input").attr("checked",true);
   }    
</script>
</head>
<table>
   <tr><td><input type="radio" name="rdoName" /></td><td>Dog</td></tr>
   <tr><td><input type="radio" name="rdoName" /></td><td>Cat</td></tr>
 </table>
 <a href="javascript:check_from_val('Dog')">Dog</a>
 <a href="javascript:check_from_val('Cat')">Cat</a>
</html>

jlew 2010-02-25 18:35:06

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