This is a known issue.
http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-260
I don't know of a solution.
Bret
Greg wrote:
> I am using:
> Ruby 1.8.6
> Watir 1.6.2
> IE 7.0
> Firefox 3.0.10
>
> I am trying to grab information from a link for further processing. I
> copy the link to a variable, mylink = obj.link(:index,1), and then use
> mylink.html to get the html which I then parse for the text I am
> interested in.
>
> The 'html' method is returning different output depending on which
> browser I use, IE or Firefox. The output from each is below. Firefox
> just returns the text portion of the link, where IE returns the entire
> html as expected. The Firefox output is the same on Windows or Linux.
>
> Am I missing something simple here? Has anyone experienced similar
> behavior?
>
> Greg
>
> -----Using IE (this is the behavior I expect)
>
> irb(main):007:0> mylink.html
> => "<A onclick=\"switchBG(this,'deptContainer',false,0);getAisles
> ('12790');\" href=\"http:// ..... &departmentID=12790#\"
> name=d0>Baby</A>"
> irb(main):008:0> mylink.text
> => "Baby"
> irb(main):009:0> mylink
> => #<Watir::Link:0xdd529f8 @how=:index, @container=....... #lots-o
> output here
> irb(main):010:0>
>
> ------Using Firefox (Windows or Linux)
>
> irb(main):007:0> mylink.html
> => "Baby"
> irb(main):008:0> mylink.text
> => "Baby"
> irb(main):009:0> mylink
> name: d0
> type:
> id:
> value:
> disabled:
> href: #
> inner text: Baby
> =>
> irb(main):010:0>
>
> >
>
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