You'd better not use :value to locate on text field.
Because the value in text field can change manual.
Wesley.
For life, the easier, the better.
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Wesley Chen wrote:
> ie.text_field(:id,"mytextfield").value will get the value in the text
> field.
> You can't get the text_field attribute value by it.
>
>
>
> Wesley.
> For life, the easier, the better.
>
>
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> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Rats wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to check if a field is populated on a page. This command
>> works fine and returns "found it":
>>
>> if ie.text_field(:value,'some value').exists?
>> puts 'found it"
>> else
>> puts "did not find it"
>> end
>>
>> However this one doesn't:
>>
>> if ie.text_field(:id,"mytextfield").value == 'some value'
>> puts 'found it"
>> else
>> puts "did not find it"
>> end
>>
>> If I understand correctly the first example is looking for ALL text
>> fields on the page to see if any of them have "some value". The second
>> is more specific and is looking at a particular text field.
>>
>> I know for certain that "mytxtfield" contains the text I am looking
>> for ...
>>
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