Is Watir finding a different link? Or is Selenium just allowing the user to click a link that is not displayed?
There are definitely ways that Watir can optimize its locator strategies, but that part of the code is not trivial to dig into. As always, pull requests are welcome. On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Raja gopalan <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have written the following selenium code to click this link > > @driver.find_element(:link,'Recharge').click > > It successfully clicks the line > > > I have written the same code in WATIR as shown below > > > @b.link(:text,'Recharge').click > > > but it throws element not present error > > > I checked out how this above code works, this above code forms this xpath at > the end > > > "//a[normalize-space()='Recharge']" > > > So I suspected that this xpath might be the reason, So I have written the > below selenium code using this xpath, As I expected the same error was > > thrown by selenium as well(element is not visible) > > > @driver.find_element(:xpath,"//a[normalize-space()='Recharge']").click > > So what I think is, WATIR should refrain forming the xpath when b.link is > called, they can directly convert this code to > @driver.find_element(:link,'Recharge') but they > > can form the xpath when b.element(:text,'Recharge') is called > > > any suggestion? > > > -- > -- > 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] > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Watir General" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- 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] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
