I have a tricky page where I need to click on a a menu that has been
implemented as a table. There are many such menus and I can find the
surrounding div (by id), but there is no other way to find the table (it
doesn't have a predictable index, for example). So what I want is to ask the
Div for the table -- where it is in fact, the only nested table).
E.g.
menu = mainFrame.div(:id, "menuId")
menuTable = menu.table(:index, 1)
menuTable[ 4 ][ 1 ].click
Alas, this doesn't work out of the box -- Watir assumes that you always want
to find tables nested in the document, so it errors out on menu.table()
saying that there is no document. As tables are commonly nested in divs, and
as far as I can see, adding a table method to the Div class wouldn't break
any current code, is there any reason why Div couldn't do something like
this?
class Watir::Div
def table( how, what )
if how == :index
@o.getElementsByTagName( 'table' )[what.to_s]
Table.new(@ieController, :from_object, table)
else
super.table( how, what )
end
end
end
The table method overrides the super class for :index, but not for :id
(which should be unique, so it doesn't need special handling).
It certainly does make the code snipped abpve work. I haven't done any
exhaustive tests to see if it breaks anything, but I can't think of any
scenario where it could.
John
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