What object do your developer use? If you use stand alone object inasp.net, you
can give an ID to it. But if you use an object inside ancontainer like
DataGrid,DataList, Repeater or GridView( Asp.Net 2.0).Asp.Net automatically
gives and ID to them since an ID in a html pagemust be unique. For example you
have such a declaration in aspx page.
<asp:GridView " ID="ctlDataGrid" runat="server"
AutoGenerateColumns="False"EnableViewState="False" Width="100%"
CssClass="Grid"> <Columns>
<asp:TemplateField> <ItemTemplate>
<asp:Label ID="lblName" runat="server"Text='<%#
DataBinder.Eval(Container, "DataItem.Name") %>'></asp:Label>
</ItemTemplate> </asp:TemplateField>
</Columns> </asp:GridView> this asp.net
template render in html as below.
<table id="ctl00_cphAnaIcerikPaneli_ctlDataGrid" > <tr>
<td align="left">
<spanid="ctl00_cphAnaIcerikPaneli_ctlDataGrid_ctl02_lblName">İMAM HATİPLİSESİ
VE ANADOLU İ.H.L. </span> </td> </tr>
!
<tr > <td align="left">
<spanid="ctl00_cphAnaIcerikPaneli_ctlDataGrid_ctl03_lblName">AnafartalarLisesi
</span> </td </tr>
</table>
note that your lblName id in label rendered as span as asp.net rendersasp:label
as span and it renames your id="lblName"
asctl00_cphAnaIcerikPaneli_ctlDataGrid_ctl03_lblName
cphAnaIcerikPaneli this comes beacuse of SkinID which comes with Asp.Net 2.0
ctlDataGrid this is what you give an id to your datagrid or gridview object.at
last lblName this is your developer id. As you see there is a pattern inthis
renaming of IDs.
you can catch these as ie.span(:id,/lblName/) if they are stand alone. If they
are in a grid catch table, table(:id,/ctlDataGrid/) and in your table's rows
catch them as span(:id,/lblName/) in one row there must be only one lblName,
sinceasp.net does not allow you to give same id to one object. thereforeyou
will know that all lblnames are instances of your label(span).
Also your developer override naming of these identifiers. But i do notthink he
will want to do that.
On 7/21/05, Zeljko Filipin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >From watir.rb:> > #
The ways that are available to identify an html object depend upon the> object
type, but include> # :id used for an object that has an ID
attribute -- this is the> best way!> > I talked to developer and he told me
that our web applications are developed> in asp.net and that he can not assign
id property to html object, and that> asp.net does it.> Id is assigned to
element by it's position at page, something like> > <input id="catalog_1"
type="checkbox" />> > and id is changed when another element (checkbox in this
case) is added to> page.> > Example: add another checkbox to page, so it is
above (before) this one. New> checkbox gets id="catalog_1", and old one is
changed to id="catalog_2".> > It is just like using :index, and "i always
consider using :index to be an> ugly hack when nothing else will work." (Bret
Pettichord)> > Has anybody else this problem (and solution)?> > Zeljko!
> > _______________________________________________> Wtr-general mailing list>
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> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general>
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