Buttons
In web applications, we generally submit information we have entered or selected in the web page by clicking links, buttons and images, or by hitting Enter/Return on our keyboard.
Watir clicks buttons on a web page by looking at the attributes available in the <button>, <input type="button">, <input type="image">, <input type="reset">, and <input type="submit"> HTML tags. Common attributes are id, name and value. For complete list see HTML Elements Supported by Watir.
HTML Buttons
What you see in the web browser:
This is the tag in the HTML source:
<input type="button" id="one" name="clickme" value="Click Me">
id Attribute
This is the Watir code you need to click a button using the id attribute:
ie.button(:id, "one").click
name Attribute
This is the Watir code you need to click a button using the name attribute:
ie.button(:name, "clickme").click
value Attribute
This is the Watir code you need to click a button using the value attribute:
ie.button(:value, "Click Me").click
Image Buttons
<input type="image"> tag looks like an image, but acts like a button. Like HTML buttons it can be accessed by id, name and value attributes. Image buttons can also be accessed by their src attribute.
src Attribute
What you see in the web browser:
This is the tag in the HTML source:
<input type="image" src="images/doit.gif">
This is the Watir code you need to click a button with an image using the src attribute as a regular expression:
ie.button(:src, /doit/).click
In this case we're looking for a button with doit as part of the src attribute.
