Thanks, Joedio. There is a way to do this using AutoIt. If I use
send_keys, then check the value of the text_field, I can determine
which element has focus. Unfortunately, this won't work with buttons
and links.


On May 18, 9:57 am, joedio <[email protected]> wrote:
> The Watir tabindex method you used is for HTMl tags with a tabindex
> attribute.
> For example:
>    <a href="#interactive" tabindex="1" >Link A</a>
>    <a href="#interactive" tabindex="2" >Link B</a>
>
> As you mention, your web page is NOT using the tabindex attribute,
> thus the method return 0.
>
> Perhaps you could use AutoIt's send_keys command to tab through the
> web page, e.g.
>
> # Advance to the next object in the tabbing order
> browser.send_keys("{TAB}")
>
> and after each command detect which object has focus. You could then
> collect the tabbing
> order, which could be saved and compared to the tabbing order found on
> subsequent runs.
>
> Sorry but I don't know of a means to tell which object has focus,
> Watir's Watir::Element class lack an in_focus? method.
> It has focus method to set the focus but not a method to verify if it
> is in focus.
> Perhaps someone else can assist with that.
>
> On May 14, 7:06 pm, George <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > I'm trying to verify the tab order on a login page by accessing the
> > tabindex attribute. Unfortunately, the tabindex isn't specified in the
> > HTML code and performing the following code isn't helping me. Does
> > anybody have any ideas?
>
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> > @browser = Watir::IE.attach(:title, /Login/)
>
> > puts @browser.text_field(:id, 'username').document.tabindex # returns
> > 0
>
> > puts @browser.text_field(:id, 'username').attribute_value('tabindex')
> > # returns 0
>
> > puts @browser.text_field(:id, 'password').document.tabindex # returns
> > 0, expected 1
>
> > puts @browser.text_field(:id, 'password').document.tabindex # returns
> > 0, expected 1
>
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
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