try something like: puts $ie.html.scan(/<div.*class\s*=\s*"details"/i).size
pay attention to the " part. If you get 0 results, try it with '. Also, it is possible that you have some with " and some with ' if that's the case, then you should make this regular expression even more abstract. Anyway, this should be quite fast if you get your regexp correct. On Feb 5, 5:47 pm, Paul Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > some one else asked a similar question a while back. I pointed them to > some kind of solution, but I really cant remember what it was. It may > have been something like taking the html, and using scan to get the > div tags, and then using index to find the ones you are after. > > Paul > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Jason <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've got anywhere from 1 to 10 <div> elements on my page with the same > > class. > > > <div class="details"> > > > I want a robust and quick way of determining how many, or iterating > > through each of these divs. > > > divs.find_all does the job, but it's rather slow because it appears to > > be iterating through EVERY <div> on my page (300+) and then attempting > > to match these to the class, i.e. > > > $ie.divs.find_all{|dv|/details/.match(dv.class_name)}.length > > > A little bit slow. > > > Alternatively I thought of using :index until I resulted in an error, > > i.e. > > > for i in 1..10 (until an error occurs) > > $ie.div(:class=>"details", :index=>i) > > end > > > But this seems a little messy. > > > Any better suggestions? Something simple I'm missing? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
