thanks Tiffany
we've spend some time on #watir irc and got it to work with frame for
this page, will see how it goes with later pages...
$ie.frame(:name, "menu").link(:text, 'Operate on Sensor Points').click

On Mar 20, 9:33 am, Tiffany Fodor <tcfo...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Have you tried :text or :href?  If all else fails, you might be able
> to use :index, but I'd recommend that as a last resort.  You could try
> in irb with index just to make sure you can click on it and then work
> on a better solution from there.
>
> Also, I've run into cases where the link is actually a span.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> -Tiffany
>
> On Mar 20, 10:58 am, anssirius <anssir...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > hello
> > need some help here... trying to click on a link on jsp page using
> > xpath but tried a few and none are working...
>
> > here's the html tag from IE Developer tool bar:
> > <A title="To Operate On Sensor Points" href="javascript:window.open('/
> > sirius/SiteMgrs.jsp?
> > sel=SaveSensorPoints','_parent','toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes');">Operate
> > on Sensor Points</A>
>
> > these are the ones i've tried:
> > # $ie.link(:xpath,"//a[conta...@href ,'To Operate on Sensor
> > Points']/").click
> > # $ie.link(:xpath,"//a[conta...@title ,'To Operate on Sensor
> > Points']/").click
> > # $ie.link(:xpath,"//a[conta...@href , 'SiteMgrs.jsp?
> > sel=SaveSensorPoints']/").click
> > # $ie.link(:xpath,"//a[conta...@href , 'javascript:window.open('/
> > sirius/SiteMgrs.jsp?
> > sel=SaveSensorPoints','_parent','toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes')']/").click
> > #$ie.link(:xpath,"//a[conta...@href , 'javascript:window.open('/sirius/
> > SiteMgrs.jsp?sel=SaveSensorPoints']/").click
>
> > any other ways to click on this link?
> > thx!
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