This brings up an interesting issue that came up yesterday. We have a new front-end designer on staff who was creating some mockups for a new project. I was getting familiar with his code and using watir to navigate around, and noticed that of the ~90 divs on the page, only 5-6 have unique (or any) id tags. These unnamed divs make up the primary navigation system for the site. There are no images, buttons or tables on the page. So of course, not thinking much into it - I ask if it would be possible for him add unique id tags to the major navigational elements (50% of the divs are not important to anything other than design). He replied, saying that adding unique ids to all elements would wreak havoc with style sheets, since all of these unnamed divs share the same style information. Also, for Search Engine Optimization (SEO), he needs to keep as much unnecessary text off the page as possible (although this point is debatable). In this case, where do we go from here? I completely understand his point, but at the same time I would be prevented from automating the majority of the tests on the new site. Of course we don't rely 100% on automation (probably less than 50%), but 100% manual testing requires quite more time, and produces many fewer test results. I'd be interested to hear solutions, or just comments on the issue - I know it has to be fairly common. -- Adam
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Željko Filipin Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 8:38 AM To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] Click on button which isn't a button If language changes I would recommend that you ask your developer to add an id attribute to div tag. Then you would not have to rely on text. If that is not the option, you can try this. ie.cell(:html, /registration/).click or ie.cell(:html, /registration/).div(:text, //).click -- ZeljkoFilipin.com
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