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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
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On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Mike Hin <> 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 =3D "SSSBUTTON_CONFIRMLINK" then return the inner text of the span"
>
> print ie.spans[x] returns the following
>
> type:
> id:
> name:
> value:
> disabled: =A0 =A0 false
> class: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0SSSBUTTON_CONFIRMLINK
> text: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 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.

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 Hin <>
> 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.

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Mike Hin 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


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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.
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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")



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