Željko Filipin's Blog on Software and Testing

There was an interesting question recently at Watir General forum. How to get text from Internet Explorer status bar using Watir? I did not know that it was possible. Not only it is possible, but it is so easy.

ie.status
=> “Done”

I just had to put it at How To page of Watir Wiki.

I had to click a h4 headline.

<h4 id="addproject">Create a new project</h4>

This did not work.

browser.h4(:id, "addproject").click

I posted a question to wtr-general mailing list and Bret Pettichord suggested to extend Watir with this, so it would support h4 headlines.

module Watir
  class H4 < NonControlElement
    TAG = 'H4'
  end
  module Container
    def h4(how, what)
      return H4.new(self, how, what)
    end
  end
end

Now this works.

browser.h4(:id, "addproject").click

I had to click a h4 headline.

<h4 id="addproject">Create a new project</h4>

This did not work.

browser.h4(:id, "addproject").click

I posted a question to wtr-general mailing list and Angrez Singh was kind enough to help.

This will click h4 headline.

browser.element_by_xpath("//h4[@id='addproject']").click