the sleep(5) works but what is the significance of 5 here? do we use value 
less than this ??


On Friday, September 2, 2011 2:05:28 PM UTC+5:30, Amit Bobade 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] 
> <javascript:>>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]<javascript:>
>> > 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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>>
>>
>>
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>> Amit
>>
>>
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>
>
>
> -- 
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> Amit
>
>

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