But there's no way for Watir to infer the object type the way FireWatir does?
Thanks, Richard On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com> wrote: > > Richard Lawrence wrote: >> Using FireWatir's element_by_xpath on my Mac, I get the expected type >> for the element. For example, on the Google home page: >> >> irb(main):008:0> b.element_by_xpath("//*...@name='btnG']").class >> submit >> => FireWatir::Button >> >> But with Watir (on Windows, of course), I always get an instance of >> WIN32OLE back. For the same example: >> >> irb(main):018:0> b.element_by_xpath("//*...@name='btnG']").class >> => WIN32OLE >> >> Is there a way I can get the Button object I expect from >> element_by_xpath with Watir? >> >> > b.button(:xpath, "//*...@name='btnG']") > > This actually wraps the call to element_by_xpath. > > Bret > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---