You did answer it, in a different group.. ;-)
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On Monday, August 13, 2012 1:30:49 PM UTC-7, Jarmo Pertman wrote:
>
> I thought i answered this already. What Tim wanted to probably say was
> that Watir 3 supports data attributes. Just use underscores instead of
> dashes.
>
> Jarmo Pertman
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> On Friday, August 10, 2012 9:18:36 AM UTC+3, @90kts wrote:
>>
>> support for html5 data-* attributes by using :data_* for locating and
>> #data_*
>> for retrieving attribute values
>>
>> On Friday, August 10, 2012 4:28:53 AM UTC+10, Abe Heward wrote:
>>>
>>> If I want to monkey patch Watir to recognize custom HTML attributes
>>> ("custom_attrib" in the example code) I just add this code:
>>>
>>> module Watir
>>>
>>> class Element
>>>
>>> def custom_attrib
>>>
>>> @how = :ole_object
>>>
>>> return @o.custom_attrib
>>>
>>> end
>>>
>>> end
>>>
>>> end
>>>
>>> However, take a look at the custom attributes on this div element:
>>>
>>>
>>> <div class="contentauthoring_cell_element" data-element-id="id6775571"
>>> data-element-type="contacts">
>>>
>>> Notice that those custom items contain dashes. This is bad, because
>>> Ruby does not allow dashes to exist in its method names.
>>>
>>> So, is Watir simply unable to be monkey-patched for these sorts of
>>> custom attributes? If so, that would be really unfortunate because it seems
>>> like a pretty common thing to have in HTML nowadays.
>>>
>>> OTOH, if it can be monkey-patched to support these things, then how?
>>>
>>
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