Zeljko has a blog entry for extending support to other elements as well. We
don't currently support <b>, we do support <em>, <p> and some other
"lesser?" tags. Z just answered a question on this yesterday or the day
before with a link to his blog post, take a look through the group.
Otherwise the basic idea is create watir_ext.rb or whatever you want to name
it file.
module Watir
class B < NonControlElement
TAG = 'B'
end
end
require that your file before accessing the b element and all should be
good:
browser.link(:after?, browser.b(:text, 'Click me')).click
NB: The syntax looks right, but no guarantees if you copy/paste that it's
dead on. :)
Charley Baker
blog: http://blog.charleybaker.org/
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
QA Architect, Gap Inc Direct
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Darin Duphorn
<dduph...@redbrickhealth.com>wrote:
>
> Navigate to this thread, if you have any question feel free to keep asking.
>
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general/browse_thread/thread/1e49390656d50cce/6fa3f8043da3cbe9?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=dd+tag#6fa3f8043da3cbe9
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: watir-general@googlegroups.com [mailto:
> watir-gene...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of James
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 11:39 AM
> To: Watir General
> Subject: [wtr-general] Re: Finding a specific instance of a repeated link
> via text surrounding it.
>
>
> Thanks Darin - that's really helpful! Now I just need to know how to
> latch onto the text surrounded by the <b></b>. Any ideas? If that
> works, then I can definitely use the "after?" method to grab the link
> after it.
>
> (I'm still looking at xpath, but I've never used xpath before and am
> finding it quite confusing!)
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
>
> On Jun 3, 12:27 pm, "Darin Duphorn" <dduph...@redbrickhealth.com>
> wrote:
> > Below is code that gets the div that appears after a label, this might
> also help.
> >
> > label_id = $ie.div(:after?, $ie.label(:text,'Home')).span(:index,1)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: watir-general@googlegroups.com [mailto:
> watir-gene...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of James
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 11:24 AM
> > To: Watir General
> > Subject: [wtr-general] Re: Finding a specific instance of a repeated link
> via text surrounding it.
> >
> > It's more like I just want to grab an element based on where it is in
> > reference to another element, or in reference to text on the page.
> >
> > I noticed Charley's mention of xpath and am looking into it right now
> > - I think it might be what I'm looking for, unless someone has another
> > suggestion.
> >
> > James
> >
> > On Jun 3, 12:21 pm, "Darin Duphorn" <dduph...@redbrickhealth.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Ok, you want to us the information in the <B> tag to determine what
> link to click.
> >
> > > But the <B> isn't a supported tag, so you don't know how to use it.
> >
> > > Is this a correct?
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: watir-general@googlegroups.com [mailto:
> watir-gene...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of James
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 11:17 AM
> > > To: Watir General
> > > Subject: [wtr-general] Re: Finding a specific instance of a repeated
> link via text surrounding it.
> >
> > > But the text I'm referring to isn't part of the link itself. The link
> > > text is the same. I'm looking at the text that occurs -before- (or
> > > possibly after) the link.
> >
> > > Thanks for your suggestions, but unfortunately, in this example, it
> > > won't work.
> >
> > > James
> >
> > > On Jun 3, 12:13 pm, Charley Baker <charley.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Could also use multiple attributes:
> >
> > > > browser.link(:index => 1, :text => /Click This Link/).click
> >
> > > > or xpath.
> >
> > > > Charley Baker
> > > > blog:http://blog.charleybaker.org/
> > > > Lead Developer, Watir,http://wtr.rubyforge.org
> > > > QA Architect, Gap Inc Direct
> >
> > > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Darin Duphorn
> > > > <dduph...@redbrickhealth.com>wrote:
> >
> > > > > Browser.link(:text,/Click This Link/).click
> >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: watir-general@googlegroups.com
> > > > > [mailto:watir-gene...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of James
> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 11:08 AM
> > > > > To: Watir General
> > > > > Subject: [wtr-general] Finding a specific instance of a repeated
> link
> > > > > via text surrounding it.
> >
> > > > > I'm trying to figure out how to click on a link, and the only way I
> > > > > know which link to click on is from text that comes before it.
> > > > > Otherwise, it looks the same as other links on the same page.
> >
> > > > > So for instance, the html might look like:
> >
> > > > > <b>Click This Link</b>
> > > > > <br>
> > > > > <a href="http://clickhere.com";>The Link</a>
> > > > > <br>
> > > > > <b>But Not this link</b>
> > > > > <br>
> > > > > <a href="http://clickhere.com";>The Link</a>
> >
> > > > > I want to be able to read the page and latch onto the link with the
> > > > > "Click This Link" but not other ones. In fact, if there are
> multiple
> > > > > "Click This Link" links, I want to be able to find all of them, and
> > > > > ignore the rest.
> >
> > > > > I'm at a loss how to do this with Watir. I'm used to being able to
> > > > > find things by div and id tags, etc., but this is a dumbed down
> page
> > > > > meant for mobile devices and it lacks almost all of the things I'm
> > > > > used to latching onto.
> >
> > > > > Any suggestions?
>
>
>
> >
>
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