Give this a try. From your description it sounds like you're looking for
the text and not the value. You might also be running into a timing issue
here.
puts @browser.span(:id => "*lblTitleHolder*").when_present.text
On Friday, December 26, 2014 5:29:52 PM UTC-5, Ma St wrote:
>
> I am attempting to figure out how to capture an element's text value (ex.
> span id text value = "Welcome"), but I keep getting an error that it is
> unable to locate the value. The following is my statement in the ruby
> file. I tried online forums and documentation, but the syntax seems
> tricky. Is there something about the syntax that is off? I can report on
> the URL, so I know it sees my webpage. I tried specifying the span id as a
> tag, but that does not work either.
>
> *.rb file*
> mark = @browser.div(:id => "content-holder")
> p mark
>
> *Error:*
> #<Watir::Div:0x..fdb100fc2 located=false selector={:id=>"content-holder",
> :tag_name=>"div
> "}>
>
> *HTML:*
> <div id="content-holder" class="content-holder">
> <br>
> <div class="SiteBreadCrumb"> </div>
> <div style="height: 8px;"> </div>
> <table width="910px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"
> style="table-layout: fixed">
> <colgroup>
> <tbody>
> <tr>
> <td align="left">
> <div id="section-title-holder" class="section-title-holder">
> *<span id="lblTitleHolder">Welcome</span>*
>
--
--
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
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Watir General" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
