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Cannot access SVG elements if they are in an <object> tag, enhancement to consider opening up support #4647

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lukeis opened this issue Mar 4, 2016 · 8 comments
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Cannot access SVG elements if they are in an <object> tag, enhancement to consider opening up support #4647

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lukeis commented Mar 4, 2016

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 4647

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run the html test listed below and the associated Java test
2. Most of this has been copied over from the forum post https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/webdriver/52MayIBPFps



What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Cannot access elements of SVG that are inside the object tag. If Svg is inline, no
problems.


Selenium version: 2.25.0
OS: All
Browser: Chrome
Browser version: 21,22


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Here is an example html page, made it as simple as it could get


<html>
<body>

    <object data="circle.svg" type="image/svg+xml"></object>

</body>
</html>



Here is the circle.svg file


<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1">
  <circle cx="100" cy="50" r="40" stroke="black"
  stroke-width="2" fill="red" />
</svg>


I would like to be able to access the <circle> element. If I place the svg text as
inline int he HTML, I can get to the circle element with code that looks like this:

WebElement circle = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("body svg circle"));

        System.out.println("Circle property cx is : "
                + circle.getAttribute("cx"));

However, if there is that object tag, I could not find a way to access the circle element,


I tried both of these:
WebElement circle = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("body svg circle"));

WebElement circle = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("body object svg circle"));


This returns a null. Chrome developer tools shows a "#document" element under the object,
meaning it is probably rendering it in a different document object that I will need
access to. Firefox too shows a frame element, and fails to get it too.

looks like i will need access to taht 'frame' or 'document' object under which I will
have to issue the body svg circle query. Any clues how to do this?



Ideally I would like to be able to switchto().object('idofObjectTag') or something
like that to be able to access the elements inside that embedded document.

I have already tried sending javascript that tries to access that contentDocument but
Selenium throws an exception saying it cannot access documents outside of the main
frame.

Reported by binod80 on 2012-10-08 14:35:43
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lukeis commented Mar 4, 2016

Reported by barancev on 2012-10-09 08:21:00

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lukeis commented Mar 4, 2016 

I've been thinking about this. The problem is that there's an expectation that because
we can handle the HTML DOM, we can also handle the SVG DOM. This isn't the case right
now, so speaking from a technical point of view, this is an enhancement request.

Reported by simon.m.stewart on 2012-10-15 21:10:01

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lukeis commented Mar 4, 2016 

Is it possible to use an alternative in the absence of this feature? Any tips? Or is
the Webdriver team available to add support for this case? 

We are pondering whether we should make attempts to build in this feature, without
knowing how much work it might entail. Before doing anything, we want to check with
the Webdriver team on the progress on this. Given it is tagged as low priority I was
not sure it was going to get done in the near future.

Reported by binod80 on 2012-12-17 14:47:37

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lukeis commented Mar 4, 2016 

Hi,
I was writing a test for crossfilter elements and that is using svg too. After fiddling
around I managed to select some svg sub-elements using a combination of class, tag
and xpath selectors. However I cannot send click events there when I try to call getLocation()
on these elements I get:

java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.getLocation(RemoteWebElement.java:308)

Is this normal behavior? I would expect that either I get an error from the selector
or I can get the element and its location.

Reported by renauditab on 2013-02-12 10:26:20

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lukeis commented Mar 4, 2016 

Not sure if SVG is being used widely. But this is really a roadblock

Reported by ilynaf on 2014-01-08 10:11:36

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lukeis commented Mar 4, 2016 

After a long time, pinging, any updates on this?

Reported by binod80 on 2015-04-22 13:13:32

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lukeis commented Mar 4, 2016 

I'm facing this issue, DOM structure as attached.

List<WebElement> wes = webDriver.findElements(By.xpath("//*[name()='svg' and @preserveAspectRatio='xMidYMid']"));
        System.out.println(wes.size());// wes.size() return 0, that means WebDriver
cannot find the specified SVG element, but the xpath is valid in chrome console.


HTML source as following.

<div id="__chart0" data-sap-ui="__chart0"><svg preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid" viewBox="0
0 120 120" width="120" height="120"><g transform="translate(60,60)"><text text-anchor="middle"
class="sapExtentUilibArcChartText" dy="19" style="font-size: 51px;">83<tspan style="font-size:
25.5px;">%</tspan></text><path d="M0,57A57,57 0 1,1 0,-57A57,57 0 1,1 0,57M0,53A53,53
0 1,0 0,-53A53,53 0 1,0 0,53Z" class="sapExtentUilibArcChartBackground" style="fill:
rgb(255, 255, 255);"></path><path d="M3.4902433775699565e-15,-57A57,57 0 1,1 -49.94948076250023,-27.459959423797756L-46.44425404232478,-25.532944727390895A53,53
0 1,0 3.245314017740486e-15,-53Z" class="sapExtentUilibArcChartForeground globalDiagramColor1"
style="fill: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></path></g></svg></div>

Reported by hujun.me on 2015-07-30 08:39:02

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lukeis commented Mar 4, 2016

Reported by luke.semerau on 2015-09-17 17:45:10

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