Password field visibility

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I’m trying to write a test to detect if the password field visibility is on or off. Has anyone had to do this? If so, are there any recommendations on how to do it?

Thanks

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hello,

what about this page

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I think what you’re asking about is whether the content of the field is readable by a human: e.g. mypassword instead of **********

Whether a web page offers that capability is down to the medium (OS/platform) where the browser is running. That’s to say, it’s not something a web page author can sepcify directly in HTML in a regular HTML <input type="password"> element (or even in JavaScript). That being the case, if your web page is using a regular HTML password field, you won’t be able to test it.

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The web page I am testing has the ability to toggle the password visibility on or off. Inside the HTML code, there seems to be a value of some kind that toggles between “visibility” and “visibility_off”. Is there a way to capture that?

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Interesting - then it’s not a standard HTML password element (the give away is two things: there’s no mention of it in the specs AFAICT, and that underscore in “visibilty_off” - HTML and css tend to use hyphens).

Can you capture the render in DevTools and post it here? Or paste the HTML…

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No problem. I think I found a way around it. Thanks for the help!

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@tim.hatcher will be nice to hear what solution you found.
what i have in mind is … provided you can accurately locate the element position on the screen, make a screenshot of it and OCR-it …

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I ended up using WebUI.getAttribute to pull the text out of “textContent” and then uses verifyMatch.

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That’s bad.

Not you or what you’re doing, Tim.

There is no such attribute as textContent - it’s a property retrieved via an entirely different web api.

One more case where Katalon (Selenium?) fudges over the difference. In this case it doesn’t matter much, but elsewhere it does. :angry:

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I guess I am not sure why it worked, but it did. All other attempts to pull out tooltip text failed.

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It worked because they’re fudging the difference between two very different things.

element.property

   e.g. my_element.value

and

element.getAttribute(attribute_name)

   e.g my_element.getAttribute("value")

are not considered the same thing - nor should they be for good reason. Doing that with the textContent property is probably benign. But doing robust testing of some web properties is not possible with Katalon as a result (at least, last I checked).