Core Step clickLink

Description

This step tries to locate a link (like <a href='thisIsAnotherPage.html'>Follow me</a>) and to click on it. The page where this click leads to will be the current one for further actions.

The different ways to locate a link are applied in this sequence:

If htmlid is set: the link with the given id is used (and the step fails if no link is found with this id)

Else the first link containing the specified label (if specified) and href (if specified) is used

If not found, the first link containing an image (IMG) tag with label as the ALT attribute is used ( href is ignored)

Parameters

description

Required? no

The description of this test step.

href

Required? yes/no

A substring of the HTML anchor tag's HREF attribute for the link of interest. Useful if (part of the href) uniquely identifies a link (for example, a unique parameter/value pair in the href). Also, useful for distinguisking between links with the same labels (in which case, use label and href combined). Either label, href or htmlId is required. Href has the lowest precedence.

htmlId

Required? yes/no

The htmlId of the element to click. One of 'label', 'htmlid' or 'xpath' must be set.

label

Required? yes/no

The label of the element to click. One of 'label', 'htmlid' or 'xpath' must be set.

password

Required? no

A password that can be provided for pages that require basic authentication. Required if username is specified.

save

Required? no

A shorthand: save='prefixName' is the same as savePrefix='prefixName' saveResponse='true'.

savePrefix

Required? no, default is the 'savePrefix' parameter as specified in <config>.

A name prefix can be specified for making a permanent copy of received responses. A unique number and the file extension (depending on the MIME-Type) will be appended. The resultpath attribute of the <config> element is used for determining the location of the saved result.

saveResponse

Required? no

Whether to make a permanent copy of received responses. Overrides the default value set in the <config> element.

username

Required? no

A username that can be provided for pages that require basic authentication. Typically only needed on the first step of any webtest accessing a secure site. Required if password is specified.

xpath

Required? yes/no

The xpath of the element to click. One of 'label', 'htmlid' or 'xpath' must be set.

Inline Text

The inline text is all the text between the start tag ( <clickLink> ) and the end tag ( </clickLink> ), including blanks, tabs or newlines. Using a pair of start/end tags ( <clickLink> </clickLink> ) has not the same behavior than the seemingly equivalent empty element tag ( <clickLink/> ).

Required? no

Alternative way to set the 'label' attribute.

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