Good question, I'm actually somewhat curious as well as to the use case. :)
-c On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Paul Rogers <paul.rog...@shaw.ca> wrote: > can you explain why you need this? > > Paul > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Yuriy <yuriy.chaba...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Thanks a lot, Ethan! >> >> On Oct 26, 4:33 pm, Ethan <notet...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be. I have run into this, and what >> I >> > ended up doing was to iterate up through the containers until I found >> the >> > browser. something along the lines of: >> > >> > browser=some_div >> > while browser && !browser.is_a?(Watir::IE) >> > browser=browser.instance_variable_get('@container') >> > end >> > >> > pretty ugly. >> > >> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 08:30, Yuriy <yuriy.chaba...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > > Hi all, >> > > is there any way I can get browser instance from inside an element? >> > > Here is what I mean by that: >> > > ie_instance = IE.new >> > > some_div = ie.div(:any, 'any') >> > > some_div.a_method_to_get_browser_instance # <--- this is an assumed >> > > method which would return the ie_instance >> > >> > > Thanks. >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---