Thanks for these Željko, Both work great in locating and verifying the special character is there with .span.
Oddly having never used .span before, I'll be using the :class suggestion to verify the link I have is disabled. Knowing I can't currently verify literal link text '\253 Previous' (as it doesn't exist), for now I'll most likely using something similar to: prevlink = browser.span(:class, "disabled prev_page").exists? if prevlink == true puts "<< Previous link is disabled, this is correct" end In reply to the last part; I will admit I have (probably wrongly) ignored the IRB tool upto now, so will toy around with that for a while before troubling you with questions in that direction. GJHmf --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---