How to identify various HTML Objects in Watir

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The HTML Elements that are currently supported include:

Button	<Input> tags with type = button, submit, image or reset
Radio	<Input> tags with the type = radio; known as radio buttons
Check_box	<Input> tags with type = checkbox
Text_field	<Input> tags with the type = text (single-line), type = textarea (multi-line), and type = Password
Hidden	<Input> tags with type = hidden
Select_list	<Select> tags, known as drop-downs or drop-down lists
Label	<Label> tags (including "for" attribute)
Span	<Span> tags
Div	<Div> tags
P	<P> (paragraph) tags
Link	<A> (anchor) tags
Table	<Table> tags, includingRowAndCellMethods for accessing nested elements.
Image	tags
Form	<Form> tags
Frame	Frames, including both the <frame> elements and the corresponding pages.
Map	<Map> tags
Area	<Area> tags
Li	<Li> tags

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

: Id	Used to find an element that has an "id =" attribute. since each id shoshould be unique, according to the XHTML specification, this is recommended as the most reliable method to find an object. *
: Name	Used to find an element that has a "name =" attribute. This is useful for older versions of HTML, but "name" is deprecated in XHTML .*
: Value	Used to find a text field with a given default value, or a button with a given caption, or a text field
: Text	Used for links, spans, divs and other element that contain text.
: Index	Used to find the nth element of the specified type on a page. for example, button (: index, 2) finds the second button. current versions of WATIR use 1-based indexing, but future versions will use 0-based indexing.
: Class	Used for an element that has a "class =" attribute.
: Title	Used for an element that has a "title =" attribute.
: Xpath	Finds the item using xpath query.
: Method	Used only for forms, the method attribute of a form is either GET or POST.
: Action	Used only for form elements, specifies the URL where the form is to be submitted.
: Href	Used to identify a link by its "href =" attribute.
: Src	Used to identify an image by its URL.

*: IDAnd: NameAre the quickest of these to process, and so shoshould be used when possible to speed up scripts.

Supported Methods by Element

	: Id	: Name	: Value	: Text	: Caption	: Index	: Class	: Xpath	: Title	: Method	: Action	: Href	: Src	Multiple attribute support?
Button
Radio
Check_box
Text_field
Hidden
Select_list
Label
Span
Div
P
Link
Table
Image
Form
Frame
Map
Area
Li

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: http://www.cnblogs.com/jackei/archive/2007/06/22/792839.html