Thanks a lot Titus and Rajagopalan. I want to wrap this up with one more question about wait_while_present. Had this confusion while reading Titus's article on Watir waits (http://watir.com/guides/waiting/)
you have this element, <div class="here">Foo</div> and you locate it with code "element = browser.div(class: "here")" Some dynamic event caused the element class to change: "<div class="not-here">Foo</div>" In this case we want the element to be looked up from scratch during the polling, which is what this does: element.wait_while_present But my question is becasue the class of the element has changed to "not-here" how the wait_while_present is going to work, basically the identifier has changed? Or did you mean that the class has changed from "here" to "not-here" and again it changed back to "here" ?? Cheers Navi On Tuesday, 11 September 2018 14:52:33 UTC+10, NaviHan wrote: > > This is something that keeps me a bit sceptic when I write and read the > automation code in my project. > This used PageObjects. > > I have seen extensive use of element referces, for example > > button(:add_to_bag, :css => '#add-to-cart') > add_to_bag.element.when_present.click > > > > instead of > > add_to_bag > > which directly clicks the element > > I have also seen extensive use of referencing elements using > <element>.when_present, <element>.wait_until_present etc > > Im confused where we should draw the line when deciding to reference the > element and actually using it(as in directly calling "add_o_bag" in the above > example to click the element. > > Any thoughts? > > > -- -- Before posting, please read https://github.com/watir/watir_meta/wiki/Guidelines-for-Posting-to-Watir-General-Google-Group. 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.
