Alternative to click on this QWebElement?

Bob Asm2

I have a html button that none of the methods I've tried before and worked does work for this one.

The HTML (toOuterXml() output) look like this:

"<input name="ctl00$foo" type="text" class="rcbInput radPreventDecorate rcbEmptyMessage" id="foo" value="Select something" readonly="readonly" autocomplete="off">"

I've tried all thise to click:

input.evaluateJavaScript("this.click()");
input.evaluateJavaScript("var evObj = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');evObj.initEvent( 'click', true, true );this.dispatchEvent(evObj);");
mouseClick(windowHandle(), input);

where mouseClick is defiend as following:

void mouseClick(QWindow *window, const QWebElement &e)
{
    QRect pos = e.geometry();
    QPoint clickPoint(pos.x(), pos.y());
    QTest::mouseMove(window, clickPoint);
    QTest::mouseClick(window, Qt::LeftButton,
                      Qt::NoModifier, clickPoint,
                      100);
}

and input is

auto input =
page()
            ->mainFrame()
            ->documentElement()
            .findFirst(QString("input[id='foo']");

Can someone point out the reason why it isn't workng? or provide a working alternative? I have no idea why the regular methods isn't working.

JonB

@Bob-Asm2
Umm, how is <input type="text"> a "button"? It's an edit control. (It's also readonly.) What are you expecting to happen on clicking it?

Konstantin Tokarev

If you just want to set focus of the element, use QWebElement::setFocus

JonB

@Konstantin-Tokarev
Since as I pointed out his element is readonly, and http://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-5.5/qwebelement.html#setFocus:

Gives keyboard input focus to this element

I'm not sure/would not have thought that would have much effect, for whatever the OP is trying to achieve.

Bob Asm2

on GUI interface, when it's clicked, a list of suggestions (a set of HTML li tags) is shown. This is what I'm trying to do programatically. I'll give a try to setFocus() but it has been unsuccefully on the past, so I've since always used evaluateJavaScript("this.focus()") instead of.

Bob Asm2

@JonB What happens with that page is it seems a "hack" HTML it's of type text but on GUI appers to be a select and when you click on it it show a list of options, in form of autocompleter. I just want to click on it and display that autcompleter.