Are we being strict about HTML5 for this stuff, because as near as I can tell, it was a valid optional attribute for an anchor tag as of HTML4 (http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp) which means it would be perfectly valid HTML for many a website that was not yet upgraded to HTML5 to be using a name attribute with an anchor tag.
On Friday, March 23, 2012 12:05:00 AM UTC-7, Jarmo Pertman wrote: > > Short answer is yes. > > All attributes got removed from all elements which are not valid for > that specific eleent. "name" is one of these examples, which is not a > valid attribute for link. > > Starting from Watir 3, "name" is only valid attribute for these > elements: > button; fieldset; input; keygen; output; select; textarea; form; > iframe; object; map; meta; param. > > Check out the more specific list for other elements at > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-index.html#attributes-1 > > > Jarmo > > On Mar 22, 12:23 am, hillary <weimar1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I had been identifying some links by name. I upgraded to rc3 and now i > get > > an error. > > > > browser.link(:name, "#page_25").click > > > > Watir::Exception::MissingWayOfFindingObjectException: name is an unknown > > way of finding a <a> element (#page_25) -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
