(FitNesse, Xebium, Selenium IDE) How to use Xebium format to click on a label?

Question

I'm a very new for Xebium.
I cannot use

| ensure | do | click | on | id=text |  

to click on a checkbox because it is a label, id is look like hidden. So, is there any way to click from label?

thank you for your suggestion :)

Answer 1

You can use Xpath to find your desired element. If you have the following structure of your form:

<form action="target.html">
    <label for="male">Male</label>
    <input type="checkbox" name="sex" id="male" value="male"><br />
    <label for="female">Female</label>
    <input type="checkbox" name="sex" id="female" value="female"><br />
    <br/>
    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

, then you could the following Xebium command to click on the label with Female as value:

 | ensure | do | click | on | xpath=(//label[contains(text(),'Female')]) |

You can also use the following command, if you want to click in the check box that is coupled to a specific label:

| ensure | do | click | on | xpath=(//input[contains(preceding-sibling::label/text(),'Male')])|

If your label tag is after your input tag, you have to change preceding-sibling to following-sibling.

Note; you can try this out on w3schools xpath examples. That example uses radio buttons instead of check boxes. Since the example occurs in an iFrame, you have to move into the frame by selectFrame|iframeResult.