Hi Wesley - No, sadly the IDs are not dependable. The problem is that they
are randomly generated (thus their charming names) and I can't know what
they'll be when I create a new object.
One thing that *might* work would be if I could select a div based on a
custom attribute on it, presumably with xpath. For reference, here's a
relevant snippet:
<div class="typebox"
id="TYPEBOX-0x309a453a62c80d2"
fb__tid="/people/deceased_person"
fb__type_guid="#9202a8c04000641f80000000042cb6f1"
fb__type_name="Deceased Person">
<div class="typebox-container">
<div class="typebox-container-right">
<div class="typebox-container-left">
<div class="typebox-column">
<div class="typebox-column-top"></div>
<div class="typebox-column-title">
<a href="/view/people/deceased_person"
class="typebox-column-title-link">Deceased Person</a>
</div>
<div class="typebox-column-menu menu-container">
<div class="typebox-column-menu-title menu-title
popup-trigger">more options</div>
...Where it might be possible to say (using xpath) that I want the div where
:text => 'more options', which is within the div with a custom fb__type_name
attribute with a value of 'Deceased Person'.
Here are a couple unsuccessful attempts to solve this with xpath:
br.div(:xpath => "//[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Deceased Person'", :text => 'more
options').click
Watir::Exception::MissingWayOfFindingObjectException: xpath is an unknown
way of finding a <DIV> element (//[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Deceased Person')
and
br.div(:xpath, "//[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Deceased Person").flash
NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
Again, any help would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Jeff
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 6:19 PM, wesley chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you noticed that, there is an id for each div?
> on page: http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/en/jared_sparks
> There are two div ids:
> TYPEBOX-0x309a453a62c80d2
> and
> TYPEBOX-0x7301883e4c6611e6
> So, you just need pay attention to the ID, you can locate the element as
> you want.
>
> Expect it could help.
>
> Wesley.
> --:)
> Man should be hard to himself, but tolerant to others.
>
> >
>
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