try using wait_until
wait_until{@browser.link(:id => 'fb-note-title').visible?}
@browser.link(:id => 'fb-note-title').click
On 2 September 2011 16:04, Amit Bobade <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Brett, Thanks for your reply.
>
> I tried using "when_present" but it produces following error:
>
> timed out after 30 seconds, waiting for {:type=>"(any text type)",
> :tag_name=>"input or textarea", :id=>"fb-note-title"} to become present
>
> >> Does that fix it 100% of the time?
> I am not sure that it worked for 100%. Because sometimes, I got error after
> using sleep() too.
>
> Thanks,
> Amit.
>
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:00 PM, brett sykes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Try deleting the sleep and changing:
>> browser.link(:id, "showlink").click
>> to
>> browser.link(:id, "showlink").when_present.click
>>
>> Does that fix it 100% of the time? It kind of sounds like you have some
>> sort of panel that's loading a bunch of stuff up before making itself
>> visible.
>>
>> Brett
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Amit Bobade <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Micheal,
>>>
>>> I tried to access element as follows. Such issues occur with my scripts
>>> sometimes. Such problems really suck when I give demo to my senior.
>>>
>>> Am I using Watir in wrong direction?
>>> Is it because of slow connection?
>>>
>>> *RUBY CODE: *
>>>
>>> browser = Watir::Browser.new :ff
>>> browser.goto("http://yogita/gosocially/re-login.php";)
>>> browser.form(:id, "signin").text_field(:id,
>>> "username").set("earthmplex")
>>> browser.form(:id, "signin").text_field(:id,
>>> "password").set("earth123")
>>> browser.form(:id, "signin").button(:value, "Sign In").click
>>> sleep(5) #After adding this line, there was no error.
>>> browser.link(:id, "showlink").click
>>>
>>> *HTML CODE:
>>> *
>>>
>>> <div class="attch-img">
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> <a href="javascript:void(0);" class="attach_link dashboard_sprites OFF"
>>> id="showlink" title="Link"></a>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> </div>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Amit.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Please post your ruby code as well so we can see how you are trying to
>>>> locate this element. You can always use wait_until { … locate link … }, but
>>>> if this is truly static HTML I would be surprised if that was necessary.
>>>>
>>>> On 2011-08-31, at 12:32 AM, Amit Bobade wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your prompt reply, Micheal.
>>>>
>>>> Element is not hidden. It is very simple HTML code. I tried using sleep(
>>>> ) method for this and fortunately it worked !!!!
>>>>
>>>> I don't know the exact problem and this may not be a proper solution.
>>>> Could you please suggest something more productive?
>>>>
>>>> HTML CODE:
>>>>
>>>> <div class="attch-img">
>>>>
>>>> <a href="javascript:void(0);" class="attach_link dashboard_sprites
>>>> OFF" id="showlink" title="Link"></a>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> </div>
>>>> <div class="attch-img">
>>>>
>>>> <a href="javascript:void(0);" style="opacity: 0.5;" class="OFF
>>>> attach_video dashboard_sprites" title="Configure Youtube to upload
>>>> video"></a>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> </div>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> -Amit
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Your HTML and code snippets would help us see what is going on.
>>>>>
>>>>> In general you cannot interact with elements that are hidden (not
>>>>> visible). This may be occurring for a few reasons:
>>>>> - element is hidden (or positioned off the screen) by CSS styles or
>>>>> JavaScript
>>>>> - your selector found a different element matching your selector, and
>>>>> this element is hidden
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2011-08-31, at 12:06 AM, Amit Bobade wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am getting following error while running my script on FF.
>>>>>
>>>>> `WebDriverError': Element is not currently visible and so may not be
>>>>> interacted with (Selenium::WebDriver::Error::ElementNotDisplayedError)
>>>>>
>>>>> I am using Ruby187 and Watir-webdriver.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could someone tell me why this error is occuring?
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>>>> Amit
>>>>>
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