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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 16, 2010, 1:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/click-on-html-element/193350 "2010-08-16T13:30:39Z")\
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**Author:**  [@tcblues](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcblues)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 1:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/click-on-html-element/193350/1 "2010-08-16T13:30:39Z")
Hi, I need to click on an html element using watir and firewatir, for
example:
A Since this is not a button or a link... how can I do it?
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**Author:**  [@tcblues](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcblues)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 1:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/click-on-html-element/193350/2 "2010-08-18T13:30:29Z")
No ideas?
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**Author:**  [@tcblues](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcblues)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 2:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/click-on-html-element/193350/3 "2010-08-18T14:39:24Z")
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Mario R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> No ideas?
I tested with this html:
Click me !
and this code worked for me:
irb(main):006:0\> ff =
FireWatir::Firefox.start(“file:///home/jesus/temp/click\_div.html”)
=\> #\
irb(main):008:0\> ff.div(:id, “theDiv”)
=\> #\
irb(main):009:0\> ff.div(:id, “theDiv”).exists?
=\> true
irb(main):010:0\> ff.div(:id, “theDiv”).click
This opened the alert in my Firefox window, so the div was clicked.
You can look at the FireWatir documentation here to see how you can
get a reference to the element you want:
[http://wtr.rubyforge.org/rdoc/1.6.5/](http://wtr.rubyforge.org/rdoc/1.6.5/)
I think there are methods to get any HTML element, such as table, cell
and so on.
Jesus.