I've already found that when I want to set value to text field, text area or password field, I can use id, name or label as something in fill_in something, :with => some_value. However such approach fails when I try to set value to <input type="hidden"> field (and I want to do it because those are normally filled client-side scripts which I test separately). How could I set such a hidden field with Capybara? Is it possible?
HTML:
<input id='offer_latitude' name='offer[latitude]' type='hidden'>
<input id='offer_longitude' name='offer[longitude]' type='hidden'>
spec:
describe "posting new offer" do
it "should add new offer" do
visit '/offer/new'
fill_in 'offer[latitude]', :with => '11.11'
fill_in 'offer[longitude]', :with => '12.12'
click_on 'add'
end
end
gives:
1) posting new offer should add new offer
Failure/Error: fill_in 'offer[latitude]', :with => '11.11'
Capybara::ElementNotFound:
cannot fill in, no text field, text area or password field with id, name, or label 'offer[latitude]' found
You need to locate the hidden field and set its value. There are a couple ways, this is probably the simplest
find(:xpath, "//input[@id='my_hidden_field_id']").set "my value"
If you're executing a client_side script in production, you could just tell capybara to run it with a javascript-compliant driver
page.execute_script("$('hidden_field_id').my_function()")
There are many ways to achieve the same result. The one I like the most is:
first('input#id.class', visible: false).set("your value")
find('#id').set("value")
visible: false found it, but I am getting this error on set() .. Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with (Selenium::WebDriver::Error::ElementNotVisibleError)
If you're using poltergeist/phantomjs as a driver and jquery isn't working for ya, there's always good old fashioned js:
page.execute_script("document.getElementById('#some-id').value = 'some-value'");
evaluate_script only when you're interested in returned value (and it's not an object). execute_script is better in this situation.
This is what worked for me
find_field(id: 'your_hidden_field_id', type: :hidden).set('Field value here')
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find(:xpath, "//input[@id='my_hidden_field_id']").set "my value"find("#my_hidden_field").set("my value")visible: falseto the#findmethod.page.execute_scriptdefinitely still works, even with Capybara's new constraints on clicking hidden/invisible DOM elements.find("#my_hidden_field", visible: false).set("my value")