[Wtr-general] I am a newb

[Phlip]

Attebery, Bill wrote:

> If you have more than one link with 'Cancel' as the text -- it probably
> is grabbing a different one is you use
> ie.link(:text, 'Cancel').click
>
> In that case you need to uniquely identify it, and may need to use the
> index.
>
> Try this:
> get the page to where this link exists
> open a command prompt
> run irb and put in the following to connect to your browser instance
>
> require 'watir'
> include 'Watir'
> ie=IE.attach(:title, /title of your browser window/)
> ie.show_links
> try to figure out which one is your link
> you can do ie.link(:index, index_number).flash to try to flash different
> ones to help you identify it, once you know the index then
> ie.link(:index, index_number).click should work I'd think

Note that's the inverse of the reveal() technique I suggested.

How would that look in Watir code?

The two techniques could reinforce each other!

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