Hi, You could also do the following:
browser.link(:id, "showlink").when_present.click Joe On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Joe Fleck <[email protected]> wrote: > The 5 represents the time in which it will wait. I believe its 5 seconds. > You could also use the 'wait_until_present' method. > > > http://rdoc.info/gems/watir-webdriver/Watir/EventuallyPresent#wait_until_present-instance_method > > browser.link(:id, "showlink").wait_until_present > browser.link(:id, "showlink").click > > This waits 30 seconds before failing and if the object is present during > that 30 seconds it moves on to the next line. Another plus is it looks > cleaner. > > Joe > > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Ayushman Choudhary < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 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]> 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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] >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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] >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Thanks and Regards, >>>> Amit >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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] >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. 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