perhaps the frames are nested?
have you read this? http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Frames
On Apr 21, 11:20 am, Lena <caty.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chuck,
>
> I entered some text in the field. Firebug shows the field is on <span
> class="feature"> blah blah blah </span>. I also tried your sample
> code but it failed on finding eEditorArea.
>
> irb(main):003:0> browser.frame(:id, 'eEditorArea').span(:class,
> 'feature').setpr
> operty('innerText', 'what you want to type')
> Watir::Exception::UnknownFrameException: Unable to locate a frame with
> id eEdito
> rArea
> from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/
> frame.rb:40:in
> `locate'
> from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/
> frame.rb:47:in
> `initialize'
> from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/
> container.rb:1
> 02:in `new'
> from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/
> container.rb:1
> 02:in `frame'
> from (irb):3
> irb(main):004:0>
>
> I can get to the iframe id="data___Frame" but that puts me on the main
> text field, not the inner ones...
>
> Lena
>
> On Apr 21, 7:21 am, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > try typing some text into that area, then select it with the IE
> > Developer toolbar (or firebug) and see what you find.
>
> > it might be that you just need to set the innertext property on the
> > element that's holding the text
>
> > something along these lines for example might work. but you need to
> > make sure what's containing the text so you are trying to set the
> > property on the right element.
>
> > browser.frame(:id, 'eEditorArea').span(:class, 'feature').setproperty
> > ('innerText', 'what you want to type')- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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