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Asked: 2026-05-23T03:21:48+00:00

I am trying to search/select a link in a page that is underlined, while

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I am trying to search/select a link in a page that is underlined, while others are not. The source is something like this:

<a href="someurl1">
<b>
<u>Some ulined text</u>
</b>
<u></u>
</a>
<br>
<a href="someurl2">Other link text</a>
<br>
<a href="someurl3">Another Link text</a>
<br>

I tried something like

link = browser.link(:u?, true)
link.exists?

I get the following errors

TypeError: expected one of [String, Regexp], got true:TrueClass
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.2.4/lib/watir-webdriver/locators/element_locator.rb:152:in `check_type'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.2.4/lib/watir-webdriver/locators/element_locator.rb:189:in `normalized_selector'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.2.4/lib/watir-webdriver/locators/element_locator.rb:188:in `each'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.2.4/lib/watir-webdriver/locators/element_locator.rb:188:in `normalized_selector'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.2.4/lib/watir-webdriver/locators/element_locator.rb:76:in `find_first_by_multiple'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.2.4/lib/watir-webdriver/locators/element_locator.rb:33:in `locate'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.2.4/lib/watir-webdriver/elements/element.rb:260:in `locate'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.2.4/lib/watir-webdriver/elements/element.rb:247:in `assert_exists'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.2.4/lib/watir-webdriver/elements/element.rb:31:in `exist?'

Edit:
So I am actually using this for screen scraping rather than testing. That may explain the reasons why watir does not support this directly since CSS and other better practices make sense for testing and when you the HTML development and testing go hand in hand. Hoserver from a scraping perspective, the text formatting is what the user sees, and searching underlined, bold links etc. make sense for scraping.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve never seen that kind of attribute used in a test case before. I also haven’t seen any code support for it. You may have to roll your own. Here is an example borrowed from Zeljko

    def hasUnderlined(browser)
  s = false
  browser.links.each do |l| 
    if l.html.downcase.match /\<u\>*\<\/u\>/
      s = true
    end
  end
end

def getUnderlined(browser)
  browser.links.each do |l| 
    if l.html.downcase.match /\<u\>*\<\/u\>/
      return l
    end
  end
end
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