Selenium IDE clickAndWait command not working for unique LinkButton control

Question

How can I automate clicking this anchor tag with Selenium IDE (in Mozilla Firefox of course)?

I tried two different approaches, and neither one worked. Would it matter that this is in a popup window? I can get other controls to work.

HTML (this is an ASP.NET LinkButton control):

<a href="javascript:__doPostBack('EditTestResult$EditOverallTestResults$BucketMove$LBuSelect','')" class="standard-text" id="EditTestResult_EditOverallTestResults_BucketMove_LBuSelect">-></a>

Selenium code that didn't work:

Command: clickAndWait
Target: id=EditTestResult_EditOverallTestResults_BucketMove_LBuSelect
Value: 

Selenium code that didn't work:

Command: clickAndWait
Target: link=->
Value: 

Answer 1

Have you tried using an XPath locator?

Try one of these in the Target section of a clickAndWait command:

//a[@class="standard-text"]

//a[contains(@href,"javascript")]

//a[@id="EditTestResult_EditOverallTestResults_BucketMove_LBuSelect"]

You can also prefix each with

xpath=

Example:

xpath=//a[@class="standard-text"]

Check here for more information about the different locators available in Selenium (id, name, dom, xpath, link, css).

Answer 2

So if button is on a pop up window then you would first have to bring control on pop window with some thing like -

selenium.click("elementLocator");
selenium.waitForPopupWindow("windowID" , "waitPeriod"); 

// I have seen window 
// title also working hence you could try that also

selenium.focus("windowID")

// Continue with operations on Pop up window
// Bring control back on main window

selenium.focus("")

// Continue with operations on main window