diff --git a/apps/ssb/tf-message.js b/apps/ssb/tf-message.js
index 4aefe60c..129c96b4 100644
--- a/apps/ssb/tf-message.js
+++ b/apps/ssb/tf-message.js
@@ -523,6 +523,7 @@ class TfMessageElement extends LitElement {
 						👍 React
 					</button>
 					<button
+						id="button_flag"
 						class="w3-button w3-bar-item w3-border-bottom"
 						@click=${this.flag}
 					>
diff --git a/tools/autotest.py b/tools/autotest.py
index 9bf75d67..4f5a1fbd 100755
--- a/tools/autotest.py
+++ b/tools/autotest.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def select(driver, path, action = None, keep_trying = False):
 				elif node == 'shadow_root':
 					context = context.shadow_root
 				else:
-					context = context.find_element(By.TAG_NAME, node)
+					context = context.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, node)
 			if action is not None:
 				if action[0] == 'click':
 					context.click()
@@ -89,6 +89,16 @@ try:
 	select(driver, ['//button[text()="✅ Allow"]'], ('click',))
 	select(driver, ['#document', 'frame', 'tf-app', 'shadow_root', '#tf-tab-news', 'shadow_root', '#tf-compose', 'shadow_root', '#edit'], ('send_keys', 'We made it to the ssb app.'))
 
+	driver.get('http://localhost:8888/')
+	select(driver, ['#document', 'frame', 'tf-app', 'shadow_root', '#tf-tab-news', 'shadow_root', '#tf-compose', 'shadow_root', '#edit'], ('send_keys', 'Hello, world!'))
+	select(driver, ['#document', 'frame', 'tf-app', 'shadow_root', '#tf-tab-news', 'shadow_root', '#tf-compose', 'shadow_root', '#submit'], ('click',))
+	select(driver, ['//button[text()="✅ Allow"]'], ('click',))
+	driver.get('http://localhost:8888/')
+	select(driver, ['#document', 'frame', 'tf-app', 'shadow_root', '#tf-tab-news', 'shadow_root', 'tf-tab-news-feed', 'shadow_root', 'tf-news', 'shadow_root', 'tf-message', 'shadow_root', 'button'], ('click',))
+	select(driver, ['#document', 'frame', 'tf-app', 'shadow_root', '#tf-tab-news', 'shadow_root', 'tf-tab-news-feed', 'shadow_root', 'tf-news', 'shadow_root', 'tf-message', 'shadow_root', '#button_flag'], ('click',))
+	wait.until(expected_conditions.alert_is_present()).send_keys('cusswords')
+	wait.until(expected_conditions.alert_is_present()).accept()
+
 	driver.get('http://localhost:8888/~core/admin/')
 	select(driver, ['#document', 'frame', '#gs_room_name'], ('send_keys', 'test room'))
 	select(driver, ['#document', 'frame', '//*[@id="gs_room_name"]/following-sibling::button'], ('click',))