I believe sendkeys also works for watir-webdriver. you can even use it to do things like paste text into that area.
text_area.send_keys [:control, 'v'] The full list of keys you can send can be found here: http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/rb/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/keys.rb (credit to Jari for providing that link, and the above example of the ctrl-v in another thread earlier) On Apr 21, 10:15 am, orde <[email protected]> wrote: > You should able to accomplish it through either .fire_event > or .send_keys methods. Examples: > > fire_event:http://rdoc.info/gems/watir/1.8.1/Watir/Element#fire_event-instance_m... > send_keys:http://rdoc.info/gems/watir/1.8.1/Watir/IE#send_keys-instance_method > > But I think that send_keys only works with IE. Hope it helps. > > orde > > On Apr 21, 2:55 am, Alastair Montgomery <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Having talked with our developers we would only need to be able to fire the > > following events; > > keydown, keyup, mousedown, mouseup and paste. > > > So really need a way of being able to pass a key code with the keydown and > > keyup events for WATIR and FIREWATIR? -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected]
