Would it work to use just a fragment of the onclick value? If so, you can try locating the element using XPath string functions like this:
ie.link(:xpath, "//a[starts-with(@onclick, 'dijit')]").click ie.link(:xpath, "//a[contains(@onclick, 'taskId=6')]").click I may be missing a less complicated way to do this, though. :) Thanks Bill On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:55 PM, bert <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks in advance! > > I am trying to click on the following element using xpath by > referencing its unique onclick property: > > <a onclick="dijit.byId('queryDetail').href='DISPLAY-QUERY-SUMMARY.do? > taskId=6&type=details'; dijit.byId('queryDetail').show(); return > false;" href="">details</a> > > I have tried several of the following and not sure what Im doing > wrong. I keep getting a "NoMethodError: undefined method `click' for > nil:NilClass". As you can see the onclick property has various > apostrophes, ampersand, etc. Not sure if this is the cause of my > troubles. > > I have tried: > > @browser.element_by_xpath("//a...@onclick='dijit.byId(\'queryDetail > \').href=\'DISPLAY-QUERY-SUMMARY.do?taskId=6\&type=details\'; > dijit.byId(\'queryDetail\').show(); return false;']").click > > @browser.element_by_xpath("//a...@onclick='dijit.byId > ('queryDetail').href='DISPLAY-QUERY-SUMMARY.do? > taskId=0&type=sql'; dijit.byId('queryDetail').show > (); return false;']").click() pos;).show > (); return false;']").click() > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
