That's actually a bug I've known about in Watir, but i think this is the
first time some one has reported it. It was introduced when we did some
performance optimizations some time ago.
Bret
Jarmo Pertman wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I stumbled into one interesting problem, which haven't happened
> before. I tried to access text_field with id, and got link object
> instead.
>
> Here is my commands and output:
> $browser.text_field(:id, "info").value = "test"
> unknown property or method: `value'
> HRESULT error code:0x80020006
> Unknown name.
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/input_elements.rb:
> 349:in `method_missing'
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/input_elements.rb:
> 349:in `value='
>
>
> $browser.text_field(:id, "info").html
> "<A id=info class=someclassname href=\"javascript:methodcall('param')
> \">my link</A>"
>
> When doing .flash, then link is flashing indeed.
>
> How is this even possible? There isn't actually any text_fields with
> that id on that page. Why did Watir pick that link up just because it
> had "info" as it's id?
>
> Jarmo
> >
>
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