Return the dimensions and coordinates of an element

Usage

getElementRect(webElem, ...)

Arguments

webElem
An object of class "wElement". A web Element object see wbElement.
...
Additonal function arguments - Currently passes the retry argument.

Value

The returned value is a list including the following members:
x
X axis position of the top-left corner of the web element relative to the current browsing context’s document element in CSS reference pixels.

y
Y axis position of the top-left corner of the web element relative to the current browsing context’s document element in CSS reference pixels.

height
Height of the web element’s bounding rectangle in CSS reference pixels.

width
Width of the web element’s bounding rectangle in CSS reference pixels.

Description

getElementRect The getElementRect fuinction returns the dimensions and coordinates of the given web element.

Examples

## Not run: ------------------------------------ # remDr <- remoteDr() # remDr %>% go("http://www.google.com/ncr") # # # select the search box # searchElem <- remDr %>% findElement("name", "q") # # # get the name of our element # searchElem %>% getElementAttribute("name") # # # get the css background-color # searchElem %>% getElementCssValue("background-color") # blueScript <- "arguments[0].style.backgroundColor = 'blue';" # remDr %>% executeScript(blueScript, list(searchElem)) # searchElem %>% getElementCssValue("background-color") # # # get the javascript property # # searchElem %>% getElementProperty("backgroundColor") # # # get dimensions # searchElem %>% getElementRect # # searchElem %>% getElementTagName # # # get some text and return it # remDr %>% go("http://r-project.org") # remDr %>% findElement("css", "h1") %>% getElementText # # # close browser # remDr %>% deleteSession ## ---------------------------------------------