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Asked: 2026-06-11T03:16:43+00:00

Consider the following html http://www.carbide-red.com/prog/test_table.html I have worked out that I can move left

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Consider the following html
http://www.carbide-red.com/prog/test_table.html

I have worked out that I can move left to right on the columns using 

browser.td(:text => "Equipment").parent.td(:index => "2").flash

to flash the 3rd column over on the line containing “Equipement”

But how can I move down a certain number of rows? I am having terrible luck using .tr & .rows, no matter how I try it just crashes out when using those. Even something as simple as

browser.tr(:text => "Equipment").flash

Am I just misunderstanding how tr/row works?

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    Specific Row/Column

    It sounds like you have already calculated which row/column you want. You can get the cell at a specific row/column index by simply doing:

    browser.table[row_index][column_index]

    Where row_index and column_index are integers for the row and column you want (note that it is zero-based index).

    Specific Row

    You can also do the following to select rows based on an index:

    browser.table.tr(:index, 1).flash 
browser.table.row(:index, 2).flash

    Note that .tr includes nested tables while .row ignores nested tables.

    Update – Find Rows After Specific Row

    To find a row after a specific row containing a certain text, determine the index of the specific row first. Then you can locate the other rows in relation to it. Here are some examples:

    #Get the 3rd row down from the row containing the text 'Equipment'
starting_row_index = browser.table.rows.to_a.index{ |row| row.text =~ /Equipment/ }
offset = 3
row = browser.table.row(:index, starting_row_index + offset)
puts row.text
# => CAT03 ...

#Get the 3rd row down from the row containing a cell with yellow background colour
starting_row_index = browser.table.rows.to_a.index{ |row| row.td(:css => "td[bgcolor=yellow]").present? }
offset = 3
row = browser.table.row(:index, starting_row_index + offset)
puts row.text
# => ETS36401 ...

#Output the first column text of each row after the row containing a cell with yellow background colour
starting_row_index = browser.table.rows.to_a.index{ |row| row.td(:css => "td[bgcolor=yellow]").present? }
(starting_row_index + 1).upto(browser.table.rows.length - 1){ |x| puts browser.table[x][0].text }
# => CAT03, CAT08, ..., INTEGRA10, INTEGRA11

    Let me know if that helps or if you have a specific example you want.

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