Question

the html on the page contains:

<input type="File" name="File" size="70" value="" class="inputfield_en">

I’m trying to set the value using ruby (1.9.2) and watir-webdriver (0.3.5)

@browser.file_field(:type=>"File",:name=>"File",:class=>"inputfield_en").to_subtype.set("#{Dir.pwd}/status_feed_for_test.xml")

But I get:

   .rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/watir-webdriver-0.3.5/lib/watir-webdriver/elements/element.rb:248:in `assert_exists': unable to locate element, using {:type=>"file", :name=>"File", :class=>"inputfield_en", :tag_name=>"input"} (Watir::Exception::UnknownObjectException)

Is this because the html contains type File with a capital “F”? (I have no control of the HTML). How to fix?

Answer 1

In watir, you only need to specify as many selectors as necessary to uniquely identify the element. In this case, you probably only need :name.

@browser.file_field(:name=>"File")

Update: It appears that you’ve encountered a bug in watir-webdriver where file_field only selects a field with lowercase type="file". You may want to try a more generic selection method:

@browser.element(:xpath => '//input[@type="File"]')