It doesn't look like it's just Chrome actually. I got the same results in
Firefox. Looks like the stackoverflow answer addresses the issue? If I
change from button type of button to input type of button it works like you
would expect.
>> b = Watir::Browser.new :firefox
=> #<Watir::Browser:0x110337500 url="about:blank" title="">
>> b.goto("file:///Users/admin/Desktop/button.html")
=> "file:///Users/admin/Desktop/button.html"
>> b.html
=> "<html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\";><head></head><body><button
value=\"hey\" onclick=\"alert('Hello world!')\" type=\"button\">Click
Me!</button></body></html>"
>> b.button.value
=> "hey"
>> b.button(:value => "hey").exists?
=> false
>> b.button(:value => "hey").click
Watir::Exception::UnknownObjectException: unable to locate element, using
{:value=>"hey", :tag_name=>"button"}
from
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.6.4/lib/watir-webdriver/elements/element.rb:490:in
`assert_exists'
from
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.6.4/lib/watir-webdriver/elements/element.rb:118:in
`click'
from (irb):11
# Changed from button to input type of button
>> b.refresh
=> []
>> b.html
=> "<html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\";><head></head><body><input
type=\"button\" value=\"hey\" onclick=\"alert('Hello world!')\" />Click
Me!</body></html>"
>> b.button(:value => "hey").exists?
=> true
On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 5:35:12 PM UTC-4, Chuck van der Linden wrote:
>
> See this SO issue for HTML sample, code samples tried in IRB
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16574999/watir-webdriver-unable-to-identify-button-by-value
>
> the short of it. I've got HTML like
>
> <button type="button" class="btn fb-user-type" name="fbRadios"
> value="is_agent" style="">An Agent</button>
>
> When I try to identify the button by class, or text, it works, but by
> value such as
>
> b.button(:value => "is_agent").exists?
>
> fails (that returns false, most other stuff returns the typical cannot be
> located message)
>
> what the heck? shouldn't this be working? (Chrome on a Mac)
>
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