Re: [Wtr-general] Inputing text into a that is containedwithin a <div></span></a></span> </h1> <p class="darkgray font13"> <span class="sender pipe"><a href="/search?l=wtr-general@rubyforge.org&q=from:%22Alan+Ark%22" rel="nofollow"><span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Alan Ark</span></span></a></span> <span class="date"><a href="/search?l=wtr-general@rubyforge.org&q=date:20060929" rel="nofollow">Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:32:54 -0700</a></span> </p> </div> <div itemprop="articleBody" class="msgBody"> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <table width="100%"><tr><td style="a:link { color: blue } a:visited { color: purple } "> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Just a FWIW.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I gave up on trying to use Watir to input things into my WYSIWYG editor.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Now I use AutoIt to do it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’m still going to see if I can get Watir to interact with it directly.  There is a _javascript_ API available for FreeTextBox, but first, I’ll need to be able to grab the object handle – which is in itself a challenge right now.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>-Alan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </span></font></div> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Ryan Howard (Intern)<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, September 07, 2006 11:31 AM<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> wtr-general@rubyforge.org<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Wtr-general] Inputing text into a <textarea> that is containedwithin a <div></span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Hi, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>            I’m having a lot of trouble trying to get Watir to input text into a <textarea> that is within a <div>, I have tried a lot of things, such as <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>ie.divs(:class, "CommonFormField" ).set('watir')<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>and a ton of variations to that. I am totally out of ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>From what I know, the box is know as a WYSIWYG editor, and the box has buttons on top that look like these.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a rel="nofollow" href="_javascript_:tinyMCE.execInstanceCommand('mce_editor_0','Bold',false);" target="_self"><span 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