# Watir: problem accessing textfield property

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/watir-problem-accessing-textfield-property/160660>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 18, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/watir-problem-accessing-textfield-property/160660 "2009-02-18T16:14:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![tcblues](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@tcblues](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcblues)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/watir-problem-accessing-textfield-property/160660/1 "2009-02-18T16:14:07Z")

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I don’t know why but it takes 20 seconds to do this, anybody knows  
another way to do it?  
The problem comes up when you try to access a property like for example  
‘name’

20.times{  
nameFields=ie.text\_fields.each { |t| t.name }  
}

Thanks in advance