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Selecting a hidden radio button in a webpage using codedUI

I'm trying to select a radio button in coded UI which is hidden. I'm doing hand coding and using Visual Studio Professional 2015.

Here is my Radio button property:

<span id="AddExtraDataWidget_un10_NoorgSportInd_WRAPPER">
<input id="AddExtraDataWidget_un10_No_GROUP" class="Radio" type="radio" value="AddExtraDataWidget_un10_No" onfocus="null" onblur="null" onclick="null;showHideCntrldByCaption(this.checked,'','No','false')" name="AddExtraDataWidget_un10_orgSportInd" tabindex="21"/></span>

I get the following exception: "'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.Extension.FailedToPerformActionOnHiddenControlException' occurred in Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITesting.dll but was not handled in user code"

My code is:

HtmlRadioButton radioButtonObject = new HtmlRadioButton(browserWindow);
            radioButtonObject.SearchProperties.Add(HtmlRadioButton.PropertyNames.Id, radioButtonObjectIDVal, PropertyExpressionOperator.Contains);
            radioButtonObject.SearchProperties.Add(HtmlRadioButton.PropertyNames.Name, radioButtonObjectNameVal, PropertyExpressionOperator.Contains);
            radioButtonObject.SearchProperties.Add(HtmlRadioButton.PropertyNames.Value, "AddExtraDataWidget_un10_No", PropertyExpressionOperator.Contains);
            radioButtonObject.SearchProperties.Add(HtmlRadioButton.PropertyNames.ControlType, "RadioButton", PropertyExpressionOperator.EqualTo);
            radioButtonObject.SearchProperties.Add(HtmlRadioButton.PropertyNames.Class, "Radio", PropertyExpressionOperator.EqualTo);
            radioButtonObject.SearchProperties.Add(HtmlRadioButton.PropertyNames.Type, "radio", PropertyExpressionOperator.EqualTo);
            radioButtonObject.SearchProperties.Add(HtmlRadioButton.PropertyNames.ClassName, "HtmlRadioButton", PropertyExpressionOperator.EqualTo);
            radioButtonObject.SearchProperties.Add(HtmlRadioButton.PropertyNames.TagName, "INPUT", PropertyExpressionOperator.EqualTo);

radioButtonObject.FindMatchingControls();
radioButtonObject.GetClickablePoint();
radioButtonObject.DrawHighlight();
radioButtonObject.Find();
radioButtonObject.EnsureClickable();
Mouse.Click(radioButtonObject);
radioButtonObject.Selected = fieldVal;

I tried almost everything suggested in these forums and MSDN too but no luck.

Can someone help me on this please? Your help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Solution

  • Less is more usually when searching. If you know the id, you only have to set the id (assuming the ids are actually unique in the page).

    HtmlRadioButton radioButtonObject = new HtmlRadioButton(browserWindow);
radioButtonObject.SearchProperties.Add(HtmlRadioButton.PropertyNames.Id, "AddExtraDataWidget_un10_No_GROUP", PropertyExpressionOperator.Equals);

    Having the extra search properties only makes the test work harder than it needs to :)

    Doing a contains may be dangerous if there are more than one with this partial id. If you need a partial match and know that more than one may be found, use FindMatchingControls() and filter down to the one you want using LINQ or something.

    I have an example of finding a hidden control here http://codeduiexamples.com/examples/example1

    How is your control being hidden? Eg, display: none, visibility: hidden, removing from DOM, ...?