getActiveElement: Get the element on the page that currently has focus.

In seleniumPipes: R Client Implementing the W3C WebDriver Specification

Description

getActiveElement Get the element on the page that currently has focus. The located element will be returned as a WebcElement object.

Usage

getActiveElement(remDr, ...)

Arguments

remDr	An object of class "rDriver". A remote driver object see remoteDr.
...	Additonal function arguments - Currently passes the retry argument.

Value

invisible(wbElement(res$value, remDr)): An object of class "wElement" is invisibly returned. A webElement object see wbElement. This allows for chaining from this function to other functions that take such an object as an argument. See examples for further details.

See Also

Other elementRetrieval functions: findElementFromElement, findElementsFromElement, findElements, findElement

Examples

## Not run: 
  remDr <- remoteDr()
  remDr %>% go("http://www.google.com/ncr")

  # find the search form query box and search for "R project"
  webElem <- remDr %>% findElement("name", "q") %>%
    elementSendKeys("R project", key = "enter")
  # click the first link hopefully should be www.r-project.org
  remDr %>% findElement("css", "h3.r a") %>% elementClick

  # get the navigation div
  navElem <- remDr %>% findElement("css", "div[role='navigation']")

  # find all the links in this div
  navLinks <- navElem %>% findElementsFromElement("css", "a")

  # check the links
  nLinks <- sapply(navLinks, function(x) x %>% getElementText)

  # compare with all links
  allLinks <- remDr %>% findElements("css", "a")
  aLinks <- sapply(allLinks, function(x) x %>% getElementText)

  # show the effect of searching for elements from element
  aLinks %in% nLinks

  remDr %>% deleteSession

## End(Not run)

seleniumPipes documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:57 a.m.