Forms

Forms aren't visible through the browser, but are used a lot in web applications. To find them, look at the HTML source for <form> tag. Watir can submit forms in a variety of ways.

Forms With Buttons

Watir can submit buttons on a web page contained in a form by looking at the attributes available in the <input type="submit"> HTML tag. Common attributes are id, name and value. For complete list see Methods Supported by Element.

What you see in the web browser:

This is the tag in the HTML source:

<form>
  <input type="submit" id="one" value="Submit" />
</form>

id Attribute

This is the Watir code you need to click a button that will submit a form using the id attribute:

ie.button(:id, "one").click

Forms With No Buttons

There may be input fields on a web page, but no button to submit. Instead, they will allow you to hit Enter/Return on your keyboard. When there is no button to submit the data, we can just submit the form itself.

Watir can submit a form by looking at the attributes available in the <form> HTML tag. Common attributes are id, name, action and method. For complete list see Methods Supported by Element.

What you see in the web browser:

This is the tag in the HTML source:

<form  id="one" name="loginform" action="login" method="get">
  <input />
</form>

id Attribute

Watir code to submit the form using the id attribute:

ie.form(:id, "one").submit

name Attribute

Watir code to submit the form using the name attribute:

ie.form(:name, "loginform").submit

action Attribute

Watir code to submit the form using the action attribute:

ie.form(:action, "login").submit

method Attribute

Watir code to submit the form using the method attribute:

ie.form(:method, "get").submit

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