echo - Selenium IDE
echo (text, color) - Selenium IDE command
The echo command is useful to display text (comments, notes) and/or the stored value of variables in the log area of any Selenium IDE software testing tool. It is often used for debugging and documentation purposes. It does not influence macro execution in any way.
Make automation more colorful
Make automation more colorful... ...and the log file easier to read: ECHO has now an optional color parameter. You can use any of the sixteen basic named colors of the HTML 4.01 specification, see the table below:
| Color Preview | Color Name |
| white | |
| gray | |
| silver | |
| black | |
| maroon | |
| red | |
| purple | |
| fuchsia | |
| green | |
| lime | |
| olive | |
| yellow | |
| navy | |
| blue | |
| teal | |
| aqua | |
| orange |
... and with #shownotification as "color" you can trigger notification messages.
echo Example
The example below will display the sentence "[info] echo: The city variable contains Boston" in the log tab of the IDE.
| Command | Target | Pattern/Text |
|---|---|---|
| open | https://ui.vision/ | |
| store | Boston | city |
| echo | The city variable contains ${city}. | green |
| echo | macro done! | #shownotification |
Works in
UI.Vision RPA for Chrome Selenium IDE, UI.Vision RPA for Firefox Selenium IDE, Firefox IDE Classic
Related Demo Macros
Demo-Autofill, Demo-Frame
The ready-to-import-and-run source code of all demo macros can be found in the Open-Source RPA software Github repository.
See also
storeEval, Web Automation Extension User Manual, Selenium IDE commands, Classic Firefox Selenium IDE.
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