Re: [wtr-general] Re: href in WebDriver no longer available?

2011-06-23 Thread Jari Bakken

 I'd suggest it might be a good idea to perhaps add a bit more
 descriptive text to that error  to make it a bit more friendly?

I'll pass this suggestion along to Jim who maintains the IE driver.

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[wtr-general] Re: href in WebDriver no longer available?

2011-06-22 Thread Chuck van der Linden
On Jun 21, 1:56 pm, Jari Bakken jari.bak...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 9:10 PM, BillyMobilly billymobi...@gmail.com wrote:
  In Watir I used .href in my scripts to navigate to pages.  When I run
  the same script with Watir WebDriver I get an error, seems to indicate
  that href has been depricated, is that true?

  Selenium::WebDriver::Error::ObsoleteElementError: Element is no longer
  valid

 Nope, not related to href. This message means that the element is no
 longer present in the DOM. This will happen if the page has been
 refreshed or navigated away from, or if the element in question has
 been removed by JavaScript.

I'd suggest it might be a good idea to perhaps add a bit more
descriptive text to that error  to make it a bit more friendly?  Maybe
something along the lines of

Element is no longer present in the DOM (page has been refreshed or
navigated away from, or element  removed by JavaScript.)

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