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fire event

Description

Fire an event on a browser element.

Arguments

• window

  TA name of the window.

• element

  TA name of the element

• event

  Type of event to fire on the specified element.

  Allowable values:

  • onclick

    Fire a click event (simulate a left mouse button click).

  • ondblclick

    Fire a doubleclick event (simulate a double-click of the left mouse button).

  • onmousedown

    Fire a mousedown event (simulate pressing of left mouse button).

  • onmouseup

    Fire a mouseup event (simulate release of left mouse button).

  (See Notes for other allowed values.)

Valid contexts

This action may be used within the following project items: test modules and user-defined actions.

Notes

• event argument:
  • Names for allowable event values are derived from standards of the W3C consortium, and other standard browser events are also supported.
  • Note that, in the context in which they are being used, the allowable names for event types (onclick, onmousedown, etc.) can be a bit misleading. fire event does not, for example, specify an action to take in response to an onclick event, it simply issues the event (a mouse click) itself.
• This action supports the <ignore> modifier. If the string <ignore> is present as the value of any of the arguments, or any argument contains an expression that evaluates to <ignore>, the action is skipped during execution.

Applicable Built-In Settings

The following settings are applicable to this action: case sensitive, remove double quotes from cells, standard ASCII only, object wait, window wait.

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