Hi, Its working fine now, i used frames. Thanks for everyone's help.
Thanks On Oct 17, 10:15 am, Chuck van der Linden <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 15, 12:19 am, ash <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > Below is my portion of html code. > > > I want to click TestSettings tab. > > > <div id="testnavigation" style="float:left;left:33px"> > > <ul id="testtablist"> > > <li id="test_tab_settings" class="test-current"> > > <a title="testSettings" onclick="Pages.go('testdisplaySiteSettings', > > 1); return false;" href="#"> > > <span id="testspan">TestSettings</span> > > </a> > > </li> > > </ul> > > </div> > > > I tired all 3 below option.But nothing works. > > > ie.link(:id, 'test_tab_settings').click > > This would not work because there is no link element with this ID, the > element with this ID is a 'li' tag which is a "List Item". I expect > this got an error of the sort relating to being unable to find the > item, or if it did not get an error, it did not actually 'click the > link' since the list item has no event action defined. > > > ie.span(:text, 'TestSettings').click > > This should have worked, since there is a span element, although I > don't expect anything to have happened because again the span is not > the element which is looking for the 'onclick' to occur. However > given the one error you showed (it might be more helpful to know the > error associated with each of the things you tried) it leads me to > wonder if the elements there are inside a frame or something that > would prevent them being found and require you to address them > starting with the frame object (see RJ's answer) > > > ie.div(:id, 'testnavigation').click > > While this div exists, it appears to be an outer container for the > entire tab list, so I would not expect clicking it to do anything, and > if you got an error trying to do this then there is some otther > problem exists (again, frames might be my first guess) > > The structure of your page appears to be (using periods in a futile > attempt to force intented formatting) > > Unordered List (UL tag) which is the list of tabs > . List item (LI tag) which appears to be the tag, > . . Link (A tag) which is wired to respond to clicks > . . .Span (Span tag) which contains the text for the tab > > The List Item has an ID, which should be uique and thus makes it easy > to identify. The Link has a title which may or may not be unique, it > also ends up having text since there is text in the span within the > link. So two tactics you could employ would be to identify the list > item, and then the first link within it, and click that, the other > would be to click the link via the text contained within the link. > > Using watir 2.x or Watir-webdriver, either of the following should > work unless these things are inside a frame > > browser.li(:id, "test_tab_settings").link.click > . or > browser.link(:text, "TestSettings").click > > If those give errors saying the element can not be located then it's > time to check for frames, see thishttp://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Frames > for more info on how to do that. > ---- > As a word of advice, since you mistook a list item for a link, your > knowledge of HTML might be a little weak, and I can tell you from > experience that's a place where you need a pretty good skill base. It > is especially important for someone doing webtesting, and in > particular web based automation to have a good understanding of basic > HTML and HTTP as well, so that might be an area you will want to seek > to improve -- 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]
