Using the Selenium Highlight command with Cloud Testing
There is a little used but handy Selenium command called Highlight. It as you might have guessed highlights an element on a web page, which when combined with the screen-shot capabilities of Cloud Testing comes into it’s own.
The syntax is:
- highlight(locator)
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Arguments:
- locator – an element locator
Briefly changes the backgroundColor of the specified element yellow. Useful for debugging.
To use this feature within Cloud Testing, just choose the Highlight command, and enter the element or link name e.g. ‘link=Click Me’ for the first argument.
To enable you to view the highlighted area, you will need to add a Capture Screenshot command as the next step in the script, as the highlighting is reset and removed on any page refreshes or reloads.
The area corresponding to the element is highlighted in yellow as can be seen in the following view:
The following shows how you would highlight a text box on the screen.
and a larger view of the highlighted element:
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