Accessing the element of a span

Ruby
1

I’m trying to test against the class name of a span. I’m iterating
through all spans and basically want to say, “If ie.spans[x]'s value for
class = “SSSBUTTON_CONFIRMLINK” then return the inner text of the span”

print ie.spans[x] returns the following

type:
id:
name:
value:
disabled: false
class: SSSBUTTON_CONFIRMLINK
text: Start a New Search

Anyone know how to accomplish this? I haven’t been able to figure out
the command to return the class name of a span. I know ie.spans[x].text
will return the inner text but I don’t know the code for any of the
other attributes. i tried using :class also to no avail.

Thanks for any help,
Mike

2

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Mike H. [email protected]
wrote:

disabled: false
class: SSSBUTTON_CONFIRMLINK
text: Start a New Search

Anyone know how to accomplish this? I haven’t been able to figure out
the command to return the class name of a span. I know ie.spans[x].text
will return the inner text but I don’t know the code for any of the
other attributes. i tried using :class also to no avail.

What is “ie”? You don’t specify which libraries you are using. Unless
you give a little bit more detail it’s difficult to help.

Jesus.

3

Oh wow, thats what I get for posting at 3am. I am using Watir and ie is
the browser being driven. sorry.

Jesús Gabriel y Galán wrote:

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Mike H. [email protected]
wrote:

disabled: � � false
class: � � � �SSSBUTTON_CONFIRMLINK
text: � � � � Start a New Search

Anyone know how to accomplish this? I haven’t been able to figure out
the command to return the class name of a span. I know ie.spans[x].text
will return the inner text but I don’t know the code for any of the
other attributes. i tried using :class also to no avail.

What is “ie”? You don’t specify which libraries you are using. Unless
you give a little bit more detail it’s difficult to help.

Jesus.

4

That was the first thing I tried, span.class simply returns Watir::Span
showing that the object in span is of the Watir::Span class.

5

Mike H. wrote:

I’m trying to test against the class name of a span. I’m iterating
through all spans and basically want to say, “If ie.spans[x]'s value for
class = “SSSBUTTON_CONFIRMLINK” then return the inner text of the span”

print ie.spans[x] returns the following

type:
id:
name:
value:
disabled: false
class: SSSBUTTON_CONFIRMLINK
text: Start a New Search

Anyone know how to accomplish this? I haven’t been able to figure out
the command to return the class name of a span. I know ie.spans[x].text
will return the inner text but I don’t know the code for any of the
other attributes. i tried using :class also to no avail.

Thanks for any help,
Mike

Try something like this(untested):

ie.spans.each do |span|
if span.class == “SSSBUTTON_CONFIRMLINK”
span.text
end
end

6

Mike lastname wrote:

That was the first thing I tried, span.class simply returns Watir::Span
showing that the object in span is of the Watir::Span class.

With such poor documentation, I wonder why anyone would use Watir over
Hpricot or Nokogiri. In any case, here are two more things you can try:

span.class_name
span.attribute_value(“class”)