Thanks Bill, that worked perfectly!
On Sep 30, 2:59 am, Bill Agee <billa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would it work to use just a fragment of the onclick value? If so, you can
> try locating the element using XPath string functions like this:
>
> ie.link(:xpath, "//a[starts-with(@onclick, 'dijit')]").click
>
> ie.link(:xpath, "//a[contains(@onclick, 'taskId=6')]").click
>
> I may be missing a less complicated way to do this, though. :)
>
> Thanks
> Bill
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:55 PM, bert <tumbaol...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks in advance!
>
> > I am trying to click on the following element using xpath by
> > referencing its unique onclick property:
>
> > <a onclick="dijit.byId('queryDetail').href='DISPLAY-QUERY-SUMMARY.do?
> > taskId=6&type=details'; dijit.byId('queryDetail').show(); return
> > false;" href="">details</a>
>
> > I have tried several of the following and not sure what Im doing
> > wrong. I keep getting a "NoMethodError: undefined method `click' for
> > nil:NilClass". As you can see the onclick property has various
> > apostrophes, ampersand, etc. Not sure if this is the cause of my
> > troubles.
>
> > I have tried:
>
> > @browser.element_by_xpath("//a...@onclick='dijit.byId(\'queryDetail
> > \').href=\'DISPLAY-QUERY-SUMMARY.do?taskId=6\&type=details\';
> > dijit.byId(\'queryDetail\').show(); return false;']").click
>
> > @browser.element_by_xpath("//a...@onclick='dijit.byId
> > ('queryDetail').href='DISPLAY-QUERY-SUMMARY.do?
> > taskId=0&type=sql'; dijit.byId('queryDetail').show
> > (); return false;']").click() pos;).show
> > (); return false;']").click()
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