how can I test text that is put in to input elements?

I have a web page that pulls some data from my database when someone types an integer into a text box. The data ends up in some text input controls. Straightforward. The selenium that fires the ajax is:

<tr>
    <td>fireEvent</td>
    <td>ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Wiz1_Control1_TextBox1</td>
    <td>blur</td>
</tr>

After the blur event, there are 6 inputs on the page that now have text in them. I want to wait for the text to be present in the inputs and assert that they are present. What's an effective way to do this?

I've tried:

• waitForExpression with a jquery call ($('...').val() != '' but dou开发者_Go百科btful that this works because of the jquery, even though jquery is loaded on the page); also tried xpath, but that didn't work either
• waitForText ( locator, pattern ), which seems like the most obvious one, but it really won't work, i suspect since the fields are inputs

Do I need a different approach here because the elements that I'm querying are input controls?

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The solution (as provided by the users on the Selenium google group) is to use waitForValue instead of waitForText. On the one hand, this could've been a lot easier to figure out. On the other, I could've known more about the DOM object I was testing.

<tr>
  <td>waitForValue</td>
  <td>ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_TheTextBox</td>
  <td>regexp:.+</td>
</tr>

>>> Google groups link

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Something like this I would do; This will wait for an value in all TextBoxes up to 60 seconds.. When there is a value in all of them, you check them etc and break out of the loop. Otherwise it will fail after 60 seconds.

for (int second = 0;; second++) {
  if (second >= 60) fail("timeout");
  try { 
    if (selenium.getValue("TextBox1") != "" && selenium.getValue("TextBox2") !="" )) 
      { Your Logic here..
         break;
       } 
   } catch (Exception e) {}
  Thread.sleep(1000);
}