QWebElement::evaluateJavaScript strange behaviour

[piotr.dobrogost]

Hi

Variant A does not work but variant B works.
What's the reason?

QWebElement doc = frame()->documentElement();

QWebElement doc = frame()->documentElement();

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// variant A

doc.findFirst("input[id='someId']").evaluateJavaScript("click()");

doc.findFirst("input[id='someId']").evaluateJavaScript("click()");

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// variant B

doc.findFirst("input[id='someId']").evaluateJavaScript("document.getElementById('someId').click()");

doc.findFirst("input[id='someId']").evaluateJavaScript("document.getElementById('someId').click()");

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[wysota]

What if you do this.click()?

[piotr.dobrogost]

This works. Thanks.

Before I had been using QWebElement::function() which did not get into public API and it was enough to call it with "click" argument. It looks like it was executing js method in context (on behalf) of the element by default.

[rbp]

I found this.click() doesn't work for other elements like DIV.
I used this workaround:

evaluateJavaScript("var evObj = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');evObj.initEvent( 'click', true, true );this.dispatchEvent(evObj);")

evaluateJavaScript("var evObj = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');evObj.initEvent( 'click', true, true );this.dispatchEvent(evObj);")

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