Hello,

That's weird. I noticed you're using Firefox, so I tested it under FF and it
worked as well:

require "rubygems"
require "watir"

@browser = FireWatir::Firefox.new

@browser.goto "file:///c:/teste.html"

@browser.text_field(:xpath, "//*...@tabindex='4901']").set "teste"

puts @browser.text_field(:xpath, "//*...@tabindex='4901']").value

>ruby input.rb
teste
>Exit code: 0

My environment:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-mswin32]
(Fire)Watir 1.6.5

FK


On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Felipe Pedrini <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello, FK,
>
> Yes, it was I thought, a bug, but I came ask here just to confirm.
>
> I've tried the workaround, and I have no success. The error continues:
>
> D:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/firewatir-1.6.5/lib/firewatir/
> element.rb:907:in `assert_exists': Unable to locate element,
> using :xpath, "//*...@tabindex='4901']"
>  (Watir::Exception::UnknownObjectException)
>
> And, yes, my tabindex is unique. Do you have any other sugestion? I'm
> not a specialist in xpath queries.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On 6 maio, 15:42, Felipe Knorr Kuhn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello, Felipe,
> >
> > It sure does look like a bug.
> >
> > A workaround would be using the wildcard selector like this:
> >
> > @ie.text_field(:xpath, "//*...@tabindex='4901']").set "test"
> >
> > Hopefully your tabindex property is unique to all elements :)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > FK
> >
> > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Felipe Pedrini <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hi guys,
> >
> > > I'm evaluating Watir, and I'm trying to simple get an element using
> > > its XPath. But I'm having a problem.
> >
> > > First look at the problem.
> >
> > > I have the following element in my page:
> >
> > > <input type="text" maxlength="15" tabindex="4901">
> >
> > > Notice that it doesn't have name neither id attributes. When I try to
> > > get it using xpath:
> >
> > > browser.text_field(:xpath, "//
> > > inp...@tabindex='4901']").set("something")
> >
> > > I get the following error:
> >
> > > D:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/firewatir-1.6.5/lib/firewatir/
> > > element.rb:907:in `assert_exists': Unable to locate element,
> > > using :xpath, "//
> > > inp...@tabindex='4901']" (Watir::Exception::UnknownObjectException)
> > >        from D:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/firewatir-1.6.5/lib/
> > > firewatir/elements/text_field.rb:149:in `set'
> > >        from waitir_adm_jp_1.rb:10
> >
> > > Watir can't find the element. But if I try to get other element that
> > > have id or name attributes using xpath (in the very same page) I can
> > > get it, without problems.
> >
> > > My guess is that Watir can't acess elements without name or id
> > > attribute, even if it isn't used in xpath query, the element must have
> > > it. Is it right? If not, where am I making mistake?
> >
> > > Thanks.
> >
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