Think of a frame as an entirely seperate web-page, embedded within another web page. it is such a distinct body that it's really not practical to think of it as a 'nested container' they way you would a div, table, or form.
Due to this and other restrictions, many web-devs I know consider frames to be 'evil' and eschew their use whenever practical. On Jun 3, 11:44 am, MatchBook <jeffrey.fl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I noticed that sometimes watir searches within its nested containers > for items, and sometimes it does not. I would like to know the rules > by which it decides to do so or not. > > For example, I noticed that in an Amazon.com page 'ie.link(:text, > "Advanced Search")' returned the same link as 'ie.table.link(:text, > "Advanced Search")' (here, table is a table element), which lead me to > believe that watir will search sub-containers for the item requested. > > But when I was in the gmail web page, "ie.text_fields" returned a > different set of items than "ie.canvas_frame.text_fields" (here, > canvas_frame is a frame element), which puzzled me given my experience > above. > > Jeff --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
