Ah, yes, PO used to let you do that, then it delegated that responsibility 
to Watir. I thought he tried to keep it, so it might be a PO bug.
That being said Watir 6.10 it shouldn't be an issue.


On Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 3:02:07 PM UTC-6, Cooper Legeza wrote:
>
> See, that's interesting to me, because I had been using the :name 
> attribute for several months now to find these divs. I suppose it might be 
> a Page Object issue, although the exception was raised by Watir.
>
> On Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 11:45:45 AM UTC-5, Titus Fortner wrote:
>>
>> we're actually looking to relax the strict requirements in an upcoming 
>> release, so this might not be an issue soon.
>>
>> On Nov 21, 2017 10:13 AM, "Super Kevy" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Check W3Shools  
>>> https://www.w3schools.com/Tags/ref_standardattributes.asp and 
>>> https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_name.asp
>>>
>>> That attribute is not a default as far as I understand.  
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 9:06:36 AM UTC-6, Cooper Legeza wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I've been hitting exceptions when trying to use the :name attribute for 
>>>> divs and spans. Since I can't seem to find any documentation for what 
>>>> attributes can be used to locate what elements, I don't know if this is 
>>>> correct or not.
>>>>
>>>> If this is the intended behavior, what is the reason for the change? It 
>>>> seems to me that this removes functionality without adding anything back 
>>>> in.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Cooper
>>>>
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