If your html looks like this:
<form name=abc1 method=post action =/do/something>
<input type=text name = the_text_field>
</form>
you would use a form like this:
ie.form(:name , 'abc1').text_field(:name , 'the_text_field').set('567')
There are more examples in the form_test.rb unit tests
what happens is the form method of ie creates the form object you are talking
about, so you dont really need to worry about creating it yourself
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: Warren Pollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, August 9, 2005 1:13 pm
Subject: [Wtr-general] Watir::Form questions
> I would like to be able to use form objects in my tests, but have
> become confused - as the questions below will no doubt illustrate.
> I have some tests that I've written in perl using www::mechanize
> that I
> would like to port to ruby.
>
> The Watir api docs (rdoc) show the following for Class Watir::Form:
>
> Form Factory object
>
> * ieController - an instance of an IEController
> * how - symbol - how we access the form
> (:name, :id, :index, :action, :method)
> * what - what we use to access the form
>
> 1. what is "IEController"? is this a part of the watir distribution?
> 2. the first argument passed to initialize is "container" - what is
> this?
> 3. the watir unittests don't use Watir::Form, the formtest calls
> ie.form. what's the connection between the two? how are a
> Watir::Formobject and the object returned by ie.form related?
>
> A simple example of the use of Watir::Form would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Warren
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