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Using 'click' command in Selenium IDE for selecting a radio option

click command is one of the Selenese commands in Selenium IDE and is used to click / select an hyperlink, button, radio option and checkbox option.

Prerequisites:

In order to implement click command in Selenium IDE, we have to first install 'Selenium IDE' firefox add-on in firefox browser. If you don't have Selenium IDE add-on installed in your firefox browser, follow the below posts first:


And also refer to the below post for opening the Application URL in the Firefox Browser using Selenium IDE:


Implementing 'click' selenese command in Selenium IDE for selecting a radio option:

Lets follow the below steps for implementing the click selenese command for selecting a radio option:

1. Open Firefox browser and select 'Tools' Menu > 'Selenium IDE' option as shown below:



2. A 'Selenium IDE' window will be displayed as shown below:



3. Select the first row in the 'Table' pane as shown below:



4. While the first row is selected, type the letter 'o' into the 'Command' box field and observe that the 'open' command will be provided by the Selenium IDE as an auto suggestion as shown below:



5. Select 'open' from the auto suggestion and observe that 'open' text got entered into the 'Command' field as shown below:



6. Now enter any application URL say 'http://www.omayo.blogspot.com' into the 'Target' box field as shown below:



7. Click on 'Play current test case' option as shown below:



8. Observe that the application URL provided in the Selenium IDE, will be automatically opened in Firefox browser as shown below:




9. Now, select the second row in the 'Table' pane as shown below:



10. Enter the command text 'click' into the 'Command' field as shown below:



11. Now lets aim for selecting the radio option on the Application page. In order to select the radio option, we need to create the locator strategy for locating the radio option. Luckily Selenium IDE can automatically generate the locator strategy using the 'Select' button. So to generate the locator strategy for radio option, lets click on 'Select' on the Selenium IDE as shown below:



12. After performing as specified in the above screen-shot, observe that the locator strategy for the radio option will be auto generated and displayed in the 'Target' field as shown below:


13. Click on 'Find' button to check whether the auto generated locator is properly locating the radio option on the Application Page. If the locator strategy is able to locate the radio option, the radio option on the Application will get highlighted when the 'Find' button is clicked as shown below:



14. The purpose of second step in the Selenium IDE is to click on the radio option on the Application page. After providing the click command and locator strategy for locating the radio option, the Selenium IDE window will look as below:



15. Click on 'Play current test case' option as shown below:



16. Observe that the application URL provided in the Selenium IDE will be opened as part of first step and radio option on the application page will be clicked as part of second step. Also observe that the executed test case in Selenium IDE will be displayed as passed as shown below:



Conclusion

click command in Selenium IDE is one of the selenese commands. The purpose of this command is to click a hyperlink, button, radio option and check box option. 

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