Question

I’ve an html div like

<div class="main-div font-color page-padding">
  <div>
    <table>
      <tbody>
        <tr>
          <td style="vertical-align:middle">
            <img src="resources/images/info.png" id="indicator" class="sd-img" style="vertical-align:middle;margin-top:-3px;margin- left:-4px;">
            &nbsp; 
            <font color="#1F91D0"> <b>{{someMessage}}</b></font>
          </td> 
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>
  </div>
  <br/>
</div>

I’m running Ruby-Watir Automation scripts. I’m not able to access element with text {{someMessage}} in <b></b> or <td></td>. How do I retrieve text value {{someMessage}} above?

I tried doing:

def getElementById(elementId)
  if @browser.element(:id => elementId).exists?
    @element = @browser.element(:id => elementId)
  end
  @element
end

where elementId = id of td. But I couldn’t assign @element value?

Any pointers or sample code for this would be helpful? Thanks.

referring to <td> with id and <table> by id and access the element but couldn’t

Answer 1

@Zeljko Filipin, thanks. I later tried this –

def getTableElementById(tableId, rowId, colId)      
  @table = @browser.table(:id => tableId)
  @element = @table.tr(:id => rowId).td(:id => colId)
  @element
end 

It works!