Get Elements By Attributes

i will be short. As far as i know watir library provides two methods for getting html elements. Almost for each element (div, button, table, li, etc) watir provides two methods: .

Solution 1:

Juan,

your script has several problems:

• You say you want to flash all links, but then you use watir_instance.divs. It should be watir_instance.links
• you pass arguments to divs method: watir_instance.divs(:id, 'my_link_id'). It should be just watir_instance.divs

Your example is also strange:

i want to flash all the links with id:my_link_id

As far as I know, id should be unique at the page.

So, here are different examples:

1) Flash all links on this page:

require"watir"
b = Watir::IE.start "http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1434697"
b.links.each do|link|
  link.flash
end

2) Flash all links on this page that have questions in URL (bonus: scroll the page so the link that is flashed is visible):

require"watir"
b = Watir::IE.start "http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1434697"
b.links.each do|link|if link.href =~ /questions/
    link.document.scrollintoview
    link.flash
  endend