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To access these methods you must create the DOM object first.
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Syntax to create a DOM object is -
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▼ 2013 (223) Set domObject = Browser("myb").Page("myp").object
► November (19)
► October (12) Above statement will create the DOM object for the page called myp.
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Now You can access the methods of the DOM object
► August (24)
► July (13) Now let us use the dom object we have created above to get more information of the page currently
▼ June (1) displayed in the application.
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Print domObject.getElementById("myid").innerText ' Prints the text inside the Element - myid
► March (153) Print domObject.getElementById("myid").innerHTML ' Prints the inner HTML of Element - myid

How to access the parent object of given DOM Object

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QTP questions and answers for Experienced You can also find the parentobject, nextsibling, previoussibling of the given dom object using built in
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Set parentObj = domObject.getElementById("myid").parentNode ' gets the parent object of myid
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Once you have created the DOM Object, you can access the text associated with that object. After
getting the text you can process that as per your testing requirement.
Print domObject.getElementById("myid").innerText ' Prints the text inside the Element - myid
Print domObject.getElementById("myid").innerHTML ' Prints the inner HTML of Element - myid
In above examples, I have used only getElementById method. But there are lot of other methods that
you can use. For complete list of methods you can
visit http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/dom_obj_node.asp

Some of the example of html dom in QTP are given below.

How to get the collection of all TD (table data cells) elements of the table using HTML DOM in
QTP?
Set tdtags
=Browser(“abc”).Page(“mypage”).WebTable("mytable").Object.getElementsByTagName("TD")

How to get the collection of all TH (table header cells) elements of the table using HTML DOM in
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set thtags =
Browser(“abc”).Page(“mypage”).WebTable("mytable").Object.getElementsByTagName("TH")

How to get the value of attribute of any element using HTML DOM in QTP?
Set myobj = Browser(“abc”).Page(“mypage”).WebTable("mytable").Object
Print myobj.getAttribute("class") 'This will print the value of class attribute of myobj - table

How to get the collection of all table rows using HTML DOM in QTP?
Set tableObj =Browser(“abc”).Page(“mypage”).WebTable("mytable").Object
Set trtags = tableObj.getElementsByTagName("tr")

How to find the total number of rows in table Using HTML DOM in QTP?
print trtags.length

How to get the value inside table cell Using HTML DOM in QTP?
Set tdtags
=Browser(“abc”).Page(“mypage”).WebTable("mytable").Object.getElementsByTagName("TD")
Print tdtags(0).innerText 'print the text displayed inside first td tag in table

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You can also find below links related to HTML DOM very useful.

1. previousSibling in QTP
2. parentNode and childNodes in QTP
3. getElementsByTagName in QTP
4. getElementsById in QTP
5. Get innerText of the web Element in QTP
6. Find total number of rows in table
7. Trigger web events in QTP.
8. Find all web list objects in QTP.

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If you have any issues in object identification of web objects like Webedit, WebElement etc you can
drop your comments below. I will respond to them quickly.

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Norman Walter 4 years ago  -  Shared publicly

I  am working with a page which has a frame and the objects I want to access are
within the frame and them within two web tables - how do I access them using
the DOM  - I want to click on the link using Descriptive Programming.

Thanks...

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Sagar S (Vishal) 4 years ago

 This can be easily done using getElementsByTag method. 

maruthi sunil 6 months ago  -  Shared publicly

 Very useful and valuable info.....thanks a lot

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Milan Das 4 years ago  -  Shared publicly

 helpful

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Praveen Kumar 1 year ago  -  Shared publicly

 
Valuable information thanks for sharing <a href="http://cheyat.com/qa/uft-online-
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